Hard Drives Buying Guide — Part 2

In Hard Drives Buying Guide — Part 1, you read about evaluating your hard drive needs, hard drive capacity, and hard drive cache. Now take a look at other aspects, such as speed, internal/external hard drives, and various interfaces available.Read ahead to find out.

Hard Drive Speed
The hard drive speed is measured in RPM (revolution per minute), and shows how fast hard drive can read and write data to and from the disc. Hard drives read data by rotating magnetic platters (as mentioned above). The faster the rotating speed, the quicker the data is read. If you use your PC for high definition work, then go for hard drive offering rotational speed of 7200, else a lower RPM hard drive will also suffice.

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Internal and External Hard Drives
Internal hard drives are ideal if your work requires you to travel a lot as these do not require an additional storage space. Internal drives are also cheaper and offer faster transfer rate, but the installation of such drives is complicated.

External hard drives on the other hand are easy to install and are best to store larger files. Also, if you wish to add extra computers, you can transport your external hard drive to another machine easily. You need to connect an external hard drive to the computer via a USB cable or FireWire.

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Interfaces
Different types of interfaces are available like USB 2.0, FireWire, SATA, IDE, etc. in the market. IDE is a common parallel interface usually written as ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), and can shift data at a relatively high speed (100-133 MB per second). SATA is a more advanced interface and uses two high frequency cables to make the connection. SATA can move data upto 1.5 GB per second. Consider that your motherboard should be SATA compatible for maximum advantage. However, FireWire is the fastest interface and USB 2.0 is comparatively fast enough to perform data transfer job effectively.

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