External hard drives are an incredibly useful invention that can literally save a business and turn a private computer into one with twice the capacity for files.
At the same time it's great for transporting files between computers and for working on projects no matter where you were.
It can be useful for encrypting and locking away information and this can literally give you the ability to hold your life's work in your hands and be completely secure that it is safe and backed up.
First of all they are of course useful for backing up information.
This is incredibly important for countless reasons and can mean making backups of documents that might be your life's work, a novel, or a list of a company's clients, or of pictures that might be irreplaceable and sentimental, or code that might be a company's killer app just waiting to be released.
Without a backup, losing this can be very upsetting in the case of the sentimental and irreplaceable data, or dire to the future of a business in the case of a killer app or a list of clients and could cost billions.
If it's your novel then you might never be a famous author after all.
In a nut shell external hard drives offer a contingency plan and insurance and are a very smart investment.
You'd never risk owning a house without insurance - and sometimes ideas and data can be just as valuable if not more so than real estate.
These hard drives are also great of course for expanding your storage.
If you have a computer with a 150GB hard drive, this might seem like more than you'll ever need.
However once you get a few videos that you've downloaded on there you might find that your computer is no longer able to store anything new and might also be slower as a result.
As such then you can use external hard drives to save all of your large videos, music, pictures and other large files and keep your computer for system files and software among other things.
You'll find as a result your computer runs faster and that you have space for a lot more films - which you can take around to other people's houses.
That's the other great thing about external hard drives - you can take them anywhere.
This means whether you want to share videos at a friend's or you just want to transfer files from one computer to another.
At the same time it's also useful in this capacity for transferring files when you want to reformat your hard drive and set your computer back to factory settings - which we all know happens far more often than we'd choose.
And finally external hard drives are great for hiding data you don't want to be seen.
You can take your diary for instance off of the main computer or network this way so that no one else can find it and password protect it on your external hard drive.
While there are many other ways you could protect your files with a password or hide them from the other users, with an external hard drive you can actual hold them physically in your hand meaning you can hide them or lock them away too - which is still the best way to secure anything.
At the same time it's great for transporting files between computers and for working on projects no matter where you were.
It can be useful for encrypting and locking away information and this can literally give you the ability to hold your life's work in your hands and be completely secure that it is safe and backed up.
First of all they are of course useful for backing up information.
This is incredibly important for countless reasons and can mean making backups of documents that might be your life's work, a novel, or a list of a company's clients, or of pictures that might be irreplaceable and sentimental, or code that might be a company's killer app just waiting to be released.
Without a backup, losing this can be very upsetting in the case of the sentimental and irreplaceable data, or dire to the future of a business in the case of a killer app or a list of clients and could cost billions.
If it's your novel then you might never be a famous author after all.
In a nut shell external hard drives offer a contingency plan and insurance and are a very smart investment.
You'd never risk owning a house without insurance - and sometimes ideas and data can be just as valuable if not more so than real estate.
These hard drives are also great of course for expanding your storage.
If you have a computer with a 150GB hard drive, this might seem like more than you'll ever need.
However once you get a few videos that you've downloaded on there you might find that your computer is no longer able to store anything new and might also be slower as a result.
As such then you can use external hard drives to save all of your large videos, music, pictures and other large files and keep your computer for system files and software among other things.
You'll find as a result your computer runs faster and that you have space for a lot more films - which you can take around to other people's houses.
That's the other great thing about external hard drives - you can take them anywhere.
This means whether you want to share videos at a friend's or you just want to transfer files from one computer to another.
At the same time it's also useful in this capacity for transferring files when you want to reformat your hard drive and set your computer back to factory settings - which we all know happens far more often than we'd choose.
And finally external hard drives are great for hiding data you don't want to be seen.
You can take your diary for instance off of the main computer or network this way so that no one else can find it and password protect it on your external hard drive.
While there are many other ways you could protect your files with a password or hide them from the other users, with an external hard drive you can actual hold them physically in your hand meaning you can hide them or lock them away too - which is still the best way to secure anything.
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