Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Tips choose Portable hard drive


Portable hard drive, according to the name, of portability-take, including the inclusion in the pants pocket, because of the concise, compact. Typically, portable hard drive comes with backup software with. Indeed, the portable hard drive - was - as the backup media. Therefore, portable hard drive also works as pemulih (restorer), and data files if the files' original 'corrupt, because the virus for example.

What to note?
In the market at this time there are so many options for portable hard drive, among others, A-Data, Buffalo, Iomega, Imation, Lacie, Maxtor, Qnap, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, Transcend and Western Digital. Physical portable hard drive of the present beautiful, tiny, with a capacity of more substantial. Mengemaskan have a hard disk 1.8 ", which is 2.5", also 3.5 ". Choose to stay where needed.

Nah, that you are not too busy thinking about what should be considered when buying a portable hard drive, here we give a little guidance. Note the things below when shopping portable hard drive.

1. Capacity (capacity up to save the file)
Portable hard disk capacity savings vary, starting from 40GB to 500GB. But now also have a portable hard drive appear tampungnya power of up to 1.5 TB (terabyte). If you work with a lot of video and graphics files, we recommend to select the hard drive portable with the largest capacity you can buy.

In addition to supplements as directed on the desktop computer hard drive, portable hard drive is most precisely zero market netbook and notebook users (mini notebook). Portable hard drive that is aimed at the notebook / mini notebook comes in two sizes: 2.5 "and 1.8". But you are also not prohibited from choosing the size of 3.5 ", despite this one is often aimed at the desktop PC. Of comfort carry-bawanya akan different. In addition, the price of portable hard drive 1.8 "definitely more expensive than the 2.5", despite both of them with a perfect match.

2. Play speed drive
Play the disc speed is partly determined by the rate of data speed, and is expressed in rpm (rotation per minute). Generally, portable hard disk rotates at the speed of 5400rpm.

3. Large buffer or cache
The amount represents the amount of buffer memory that is cached, or stored which can be handled by a drive while waiting for a request (request) from the next system. The size of the buffer ranges from 2MB - 16MB. The large size of the buffer, the more data that can be stored and faster data delivery. However, the larger the size of the buffer dikemaskan a portable hard drive, also will be more expensive portable hard drive is the price.

4. Recovery Features
Choose a portable hard drive comes with backup and recovery features. This feature is useful when the files you were damaged as a result of data corruption or loss of electric Feed the sudden, or due to virus attack. Through the recovery feature, you will be able to recover data lost / damaged.

5. Ability PnP (plug and play)
Plug the cord and portable hard drive can be used directly without the need to install drivers or any software, so the purpose PnP. PnP capability, especially needed if you intend to use a portable hard drive in some computer - PC in the office, netbook in the office, or notebook at home.

A Options: Imation Apollo
Of the many portable hard drive option available on the market, let's take a look at. Cool name, Apollo. This product dibesut by Imation. Imation? Lho, Imation is not the product of magnetic tape? True, but the first.

Some time ago the famous akan Imation removable data storage products such as magnetic tape, cartridge tape and diskette. But later the company that is part of the 3M self-start. Imation then delivered the product CD-RW and DVD-RW, and USB flash disk and Blu-ray recordable optical media. Four companies are - Memorex, TDK, Memcorp, and XtremeMa - acquired to strengthen the product offer. Their current jobs is SSD (solid state disk).

In the land of water, Imation Apollo entry through the distribution network Datascrip. Portable hard disk casing is black - called the midnight black - give the impression that stout, and solid. However, motifs in the aluminum case of this portable hard drive makes data storage device is not slippery when held or carried-take.

Views of Apollo minimalist look. Only as a blue LED access indicator, and a USB port. Portable hard drive comes in two capacities: 320GB and 500GB. However, if the capacity is still less according to your great, Imation also offers a version of the 1TB capacity, the Apollo Pro dijuluki, in the form factor 3.5 ".

In box Imation Apollo, than the storage unit, you will find a USB cable. USB 2.0 cable that is dibundelkan show full-sized plug on the end of the second: one for data transfer and one for power. Do not drive in one end of the cable is USB. If any post, be it a portable hard drive you connect it will not be detected by kunjung computer system you use.

You may wonder why the USB cable to its like that? This is to anticipate the deliberate use of Imation Apollo on the Feed-electric bus is limited, such as PC-PC long. Remember, portable hard disk does not need its own power supply, but to take power from the computer that dikoneksikan him. Therefore, if power supply is not adequate, the computer system is not able to detect / recognize the existence of portable hard disk. At the Apollo, will supply electricity supplied directly by the computer system via the USB cable.

In addition to the unit and the USB cable, we will also have a backup application, ie, ArcSoft TotalMedia Backup for Mac and PC. ArcSoft TotalMedia Backup software must be installed in, do not worry teapi, installation is not long-winded, aka easy.

Which is also important, the operation TotalMedia Backup is easy just mentioned. With the backup software we will be able to choose to auto-scan your hard drive to select audio files, video and photos, personal documents, or files and folders that will be the backup. Options private documents can ditambahi own category. Inkremental or full backups of files that have changed from the original format - MPG, DOC, AVI, and others - can certainly be done.

At the same software is also available Scheduler to create a different schedule for different file types. Scheduler can be used to select a collection of folders and files that will be the backup at any time.

If interested in the portable hard drive 2.5 "Imation Apollo, you can buy with the price of Rp 990 thousand (for the 320GB capacity). Meanwhile, if you want to Apollo 500GB capacity, prepare larger funds, precisely Rp 1485 million.

SPECIFICATION Imation Apollo Portable Hard Drive
Type: Harddisk external / portable
Form factor: 2.5 "
Interface: Hi-Speed USB
Capacity: 320GB/500GB
Buffer: 8MB
Claim speed: 480MBps, 5400rpm
Compatibility: Microsoft Windows Vista/2000/XP; Apple MacOS X 10.2.8 or above, Linux 2.4 or later
Completeness:
- USB cable
- Backup software ArcSoft TotalMedia Backup
Dimensions (Plt) 12.74 x8, 09x1, 72 cm
Weight: 160 grams

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