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Seagate External
Seagate external drive – Seagate Replica 500 GB Backup
System With Dock
By Andreas Lee
seagate external
The new Seagate external drive, Seagate Replica, is designed for simplicity in use because there are lots of people out there too lazy backing up or they are technology dummy.
This newcomer of Seagate external drive offers the easiest way to backup data without any action from novice user required. Just plug Seagate Replica and let it take care everything by itself.
If you own Seagate external drive Replica, computer crash won’t make you worry anymore. The automatic backup feature can handle this problem. All you must are only connecting it to your PC, press OK and the entire content in your PC will be backed up including program, setting, even Operating System. Complex installation is not required.
The backup software provided by this Seagate external drive makes it possible to retrieve previously saved files after you accidentally delete it. The copies of all of your files continuously stored by the Replica complete PC backup system in order to restore accidentally deleted files easily just by dragging and dropping.
Drag and drop file retrieval feature is the most advanced technology which is not owned by any external drive. This Seagate external drive doesn’t only store the latest version of your files, but it also store the previous version so it is possible to retrieve the previous version of your files by turning back the clock to the certain point of time. For example if your computer crashes, the Replica enables you to recover the missing data by going back to a certain point of time before the problem occurred, just like time machine.
In addition, your backup files are also stored in a structure which mirrors file structure of regular PC, the purpose is to make the files easy to be located and restored.
Seagate Replica 500 GB Backup System With Dock
Design
Seagate external drive Replica is covered with a gray/silver case, weighing just 9.1 ounces, and measuring at 0.7 x 5.6 x 4 inches. Seagate Replica Multi-PC version comes with a desktop dock to hold the drive vertically in order to minimize the needs of desk space. The dock less version of this Seagate external drive with 250 GB capacity size is also available for around $100.
Pros
The time machine function of this Seagate external drive makes you and your data secured against computer crash or virus attack since the possibility of data loss becomes exceedingly small.
Cons
Seagate Replica only can’t be used on Linux and Macintosh, only for Windows OS users.
Specs
- Capacity size : 500 GB
- Spindle speed : 5400 RPM
- Interface : USB 2.0
- Data transfer rate : 480 Mbps
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External Hard Disk
Researching External Hard Disk Before Making a Purchase
By Andreas Lee
external hard disk
External hard disk brings an extremely big change in information technology age. Every kind of people; musicians, businessman, students, etc. need this device to store and share their data.
Along the development of technology, external hard disk is being more comfortable while being used, offered fast data transfer abilities, fast data access, large capacity and more easiness to use, all in one small portable and comfy to be taken handy. That’s why this handy device became most essential devices for people all alike.
You certainly do not want to exchange your money with useless stuff. In the other word don’t spend your money on external hard disk before you read its reviews carefully. Product’s review helps customers to know deeper about the features and specifications that are offered by the external hard disk. With this information, the customers know exactly whether their desired product suits their needs or not.
You also need to compare your desired external hard disk features with its price, whether it’s worthy or not. Preferable to compare more than one external hard disk before you make a final decision.
Are the essentials like service center and warranty period of the external hard disk make you worried? The answer can be found on sites which provide detailed product’s reviews.
You can find more detailed about hard drive brands, offered features, pros, cons, and other news from these information resources which help you to stay informed with comprehensiveness of up to date information. Some reviews are written by third party experts. They will not only inform you about the detail, pros, and cons of products but also will inform how useful the products would prove itself for you.
Whatever kind, model or brand of external hard disk that you decide to buy, the research hold an important role for your satisfaction.
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500GB Western Digital
500GB Western Digital Drive – WD My Book Essential Edition
WDH1U5000N
By Andreas Lee
500GB Western Digital
My Book Essential Edition WDH1U5000N has a half terabyte storage that is the best choice for additional storage, a value line of Western Digital external drive, and has a great feature for the money. This 500GB Western Digital drive reminiscent of a book, thinner than WD My Book Mirror Edition but has a same design. It just takes a novel book space on your work desk.
With 500GB storage, it can hold up to 125 000 MP3, 142 000 digital photos, 38 hours of Digital Video (DV), and 60 hours of High Definition (HD) video. My Book Essential Edition 500GB Western Digital drive is one of most external drives which is suitable as additional or backup storage since it is pretty easy to use, no need a drive to install, just plug in and it can be used in a few seconds with its simple USB 2.0 connection for convenience and compatibility for most computers. The target market of this external drive is for computer users who don’t need multiple connectivity options (e-SATA, USB, firewire) and don’t want to take apart their computer just to add an additional storage.
The default configuration of this 500GB Western Digital drive is configure to power down after 10 minutes of inactivity or automatically turned off if the computer has been shut down.
My Book Essential Edition 500GB Western digital drive has a 465GB single partition using FAT system which assured to be used on multiple platforms.
Pros
Easy to use as backup or instant storage with large capacity that comes with low price, and long time use in durability.
Cons
The poorness of this 3.5 inch 500GB Western Digital drive is found on its elegant, smooth, and shiny external case. Fingerprints are easy to imprinted on its case and easy to be scratched so be careful while handling it.
WD My Book Essential Edition
Specs
- Capacity size : 500 GB
- Spindle speed : 7200 RPM
- Buffer cache size : 16 MB
- Transfer rate : 480 Mbps
- Interface : USB 2.0
- System requirements : available USB port, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
- Package includes : external drive, AC adapter, USB cable, and quick install guide
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Western Digital Drives
The Best of Western Digital Drives
By Andreas Lee
Western Digital drives
Earlier, digital data storages are not simple machines but big mainframes that take half of your office space, work very slowly, and have low capacity. That era was over, and it is changed to small sized hard drives which have impressive performance and ultra capacity sized.
Recently, hard drives’ size has become one of most searched innovations in hard drive market. The best example in this small sized digital storages period is Western Digital drives that come in reliable form and large capacity.
Western Digital drives face the market challenge for big size hard drives’ capacity with high quality performance. In other words, Western Digital has created a distinctive culture in purchasing internal hard drives.
In early 2003, Western Digital Raptor (often marketed as WD Raptor) has become a part of Western Digital drives. This WD360GD raptor series is the first incarnation of raptor series satisfying the gamers with its unbelievable 10 000 RPM spindle speed run on one platter and has 16 MB buffer size with 36 GB storage capacity. WD360GD is the first ATA drive which operates at 10 000 spindle speed.
These internal Western Digital drives were synonymous with first class performance.
One year after that, Western Digital released the new brother of Raptor series, WD740GD that gave more space for users with 74 GB, quieter than the first generation, and had 2 platters.
Last year in April 2008, Western Digital created the fourth generation of Western Digital raptor series namely WD VelociRaptor WD3000. These internal Western Digital drives still have a same spindle speed and buffer size, the difference is only on their capacity. The newest Raptor has 300 GB storage.
WD VelociRaptor provides a constant performance same as its predecessor even if it contained hundred gigabytes of data. It offers fast data access, sustained data transfer rates, and IOPS. Moreover, the temperature and noise level of Western Digital drives kept down.
All of these features are not enough for Western Digital. The physical size of internal Western Digital drives managed to be kept as small as possible. Because of their size, they don’t look like common desktop drive but more similar to a laptop drive.
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IDE hard drive
How To Configure Jumper Setting And Install An IDE Hard Drive
By Andreas Lee
Hard drive is a very complicated hardware in a computer. Firstly, you must know exactly either you want to attach it as Master or Slave when you want to install an IDE hard drive. Set it to Master if you want to load Operating System (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, etc.) from it.
ide hard drive
In another case, if you already have an IDE hard drive as Master and install a new one just for an additional storage, then set the new IDE hard drive to Slave. Jumper is required to be moved on the back of IDE hard drive each time this setting changed.
Most people think this is hard to do because they don’t know how to do it. Practically, changing an IDE hard drive’ jumper setting is very simple. You can find jumper configuration on the back of IDE hard drive which has a small label about jumper setting. Please check the label how to set to Master and Slave.
After it is done, take a look on IDE cable which connects primary hard drive with motherboard, usually IDE cable’s color is grey and has unused second connector. If you set your new IDE hard drive as Slave, connect the second connector to it. In other case if you put the new IDE drive in as Master, you need to detach IDE cable running on your old hard drive and connect it to the new drive.
In both cases whether as Slave or Master, power cable is needed to connect on the back of new IDE hard drive to supply power. Therefore, your CPU must have at least one unused power cable.
ide hard drive jumper setting
Make sure the new IDE drive is fastened tightly on both sides of its slot. This is very important, because not well fastened hard drive can lead to files corruption.
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