
Hard disk drives are of two types – Mechanical (Hard disk drives) and Solid State (Solid
state drives)
Hard disk drives is the traditional drives that
run most of the PCs today that works with the help of disks running on a
spindle. The RPM (rotations per minute)
and the onboard cache memory decide the through-put of the hard disk
drive. The risk of such
drives is the possibility of the disk crashing or refusing to spin, which can
occur anytime anywhere without any rhyme or reason. Having said that the
technology on hard disk drives has evolved so much so that it is one of the
most reliable storage media widely used.
Therefore, as a first level of backup of your data you can look at
carrying a personal USB based External hard disk drive. These are sleek USB powered hard drives that
will work seamlessly on a MAC or PC available in different colors to meet your
personal color tastes though black is the most sought after color. The capacities recommended is either a 500
GigaByte or 1TeraByte considering the average size of pictures, movies and data
stored by an average user. Brands
suggested are Seagate,
Western
Digital, Toshiba, Sony,
Buffalo
etc…all available on www.indiaplaza.com
SSD drives are the new form of high performance
hard drives found in high end sleek laptops like the Mac Book Air or Ultrabooks
running Windows. They are now found in
the external form factors interfaced using USB. They do not have any moving parts hence considered more reliable
and are the elder brothers of flash drives or pen drives. They are available in capacities of 32, 64
and 128 GB. Though priced very high, these
are relatively more reliable for storing confidential data. Available brands are Sandisk,
Kingston,
Transcend
etc on www.indiaplaza.com
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