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Should I Buy an Internal or External Hard Drive?

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Should I Buy an Internal or External Hard Drive?

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With the advent of external hard drive enclosures and the ease of plug and play USB and Firewire connections, many people are asking themselves if they should buy an internal or external hard drive when it comes to adding more storage or work space. These considerations should help you decide: ACCESS SPEED – The best way to increase access speed for non-critical applications is to use a SATA RAID (0-level) array with matching SATA II (or better) internal hard drives. Though some setups will allow an external disk to be part of a SATA array, it will slow the overall performance. In this case you would want to add an internal drive, however your motherboard must support SATA/RAID. If you don’t have SATA/RAID capability an internal disk will likely still be faster than using an external drive. BACKUP – A current strategy for maintaining a backup of your C drive is to use RAID 1 with two matching internal hard drives. In this case the system keeps a real-time mirror of your C drive on the

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I recently bought a 300Gb external hard drive for all my music and it’s great. But, one thing to look out for is that the pins on the adapter that connects the drive to your computer are easily broken. I’m struggling to get mine to work now.