Buying Guide: Portable Hard Drives

As the world gets more and more digitized, our data storage demands are constantly increasing. In fact, pen drives have almost become an indispensable part of our daily digital lifestyle. But pen drives normally come in smaller capacities of 2 4 and 8GB. You also have pen drives with 16GB but these are rather expensive.

So what do you do when you want to copy all your favorite movies from your friends computer, but face the space constraint? You have an extremely worthy alternative in the form of an external laptop hard drive. A laptop hard drive when coupled with an external enclosure, connects to a computer using a USB port. It’s instantly recognized as a removable device and you don’t have to install any drivers (unless you are using Windows 98, wherein you will have to install the USB drivers). You can then use the laptop hard drive as you normal desktop hard drive by moving or accessing data.

Why do we need an enclosure and why are we using a Laptop Hard Drive?
The enclosure, as the name suggests provides a cover for the hard drive.