Posts Tagged ‘ DRIVES ’

how much power do solid state drives save?

June 6, 2010
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im thinking of getting a solid state in a laptop, but man is it expensive. how much less power does it use compared to a 200gb 7200rpm drive?

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Should I buy one 1TB or two 500GB external hard drives?

June 6, 2010
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Should I buy one 1TB or two 500GB external hard drives? I want to buy a big hard drive to store my data, including home video clips. How often can a hard drive go wrong? Should I buy one big hard drive, or should I buy two smaller ones? Thank you.

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Which on of these external hard drives are better?

June 6, 2010
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The LG HXD2U32PL XD2 or the Western Digital My Passport Essential 320GB USB Portable External Hard Drive. Both are 320gb and apparrently have the same transfer rate. >So which is better? >Are they quicker with lots of small files or bigger files? >Which is most reliable? >And can you run programs off them? Thanks.

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Do all 1TB external hard drives need a power supply?

June 6, 2010
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Do all 1TB external hard drives need a power supply? All the 1TB hard drives I looked at – Seagate and Iomega – have an AC adapter. Is a 500GB hard drive different, in that they don’t need a power supply?

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How do I get Raxco PerfectDisk to recognise my external hard drives?

June 6, 2010
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For defragging purposes it only recognises my internal drive, it will recognise my external drives but only for cleaning up or detecting duplicate files Thanks.

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SECURITY FOR EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES – How do i set a security setting so that only i can access them?

June 6, 2010
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I have two external hard drives, one a maxtor and the other a toshiba. What i wish to know is how do i set them up so that they have a password setting to gain access and cannot be accessed by anyone who doesnt have the password please.

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