Types of External Hard Drive

Hard drives or hard disk drives are the part of your computer setup which is used to store the data of your system. When the hard drive of your computer is full and you need more space to store the at that time you require external hard drives to fulfill that requirement. So here in this blog type of external hard drives are describe below.

There are mainly 4 types of external hard drives are available:

1- Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics: It is one of the external hard drive including parallel advanced technology attachments. But nowadays due to advancement in technology in other drives its popularity become decreases. The fastest and newest EIDE variants use cable of 80 wires while old one works on 40 wire cable. In it hard drive recovery takes some time time because of its slower speed.

2- Serial Advanced Technology Attachments: It is also known as SATA. These are the hard drives with some advanced feature then EIDE describe above. These are less heavy than EIDE. It has a major advantage that it consumes less power comparison to EIDE.

3- Solid State Drives: It is the best hard drive to use for storage the data. It is made up of stationary part that is in it no moving part takes place. It is commonly known as SSD.

4- Small Computer System Interface: It is commonly known as SCSI. It works in same manner as EIDE works but the difference is that it has much faster speed to process and store the data.

Basics of Computer Hardware:

This blog describes you about the hardware component of your computer. In this blog here I describe some important hardware basics which is helpful for you to make a new computer setup.

Basics of computer hardware component:

1- Motherboard: Motherboard of your computer is the main part of your computer system. Motherboard is used to connect all the input/output devices together. These devices are RAM, video cards, sound cards, processor, USB port etc.

2- Hard Drive: Hard disk of your system is a source of storing your data, files,music,videos, pictures etc. If you want to store more space to store the data then external hard disk is also available in market to store the data.

3- RAM: RAM that is Random Access Memory of your computer system is used to store the data.It stores the data on temporary basis. It is volatile memory that is data is lost when power supply is off.

4- Processor: Processor is called the brain of the computer. It used to process all the data of your computer. So, to make your computer working properly use best quality of processor.

5- CD/DVD Drives: If you want to watch a movie with CD or DVD, then it is necessary to install CD or DVD drive in your computer.