I unbox a new Western Digital My Book Essential 3TB External Hard drive. Found this at a B&M Costco near the LA area for $109.99 after instant rebate. Excellent deal considering the flooding situation in Thailand royally pwned hard drive production. Shortages are expected to run into Q1 2012 so pick up your drives now!

If you have no idea what happened in Thailand…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods

Otherwise

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Hi I have some basic questions about external hard drives:
- Can a desktop external drive be connected to a Windows 7 laptop?
- Can a firewire external drive be connected to the eSATA or expresscard port on my laptop?
- Can a USB 3 external drive be connected to the USB 2 ports on my laptop?
- Can an external drive have multiple connection types? For example, having firewire, eSATA, and USB 2
- Does having its own power supply increase its transfer speed?
Thank you.

1. Yes, external drives are compatible with both desktps and laptops.

You can convert internal desktop drives with a USB enclosure. For example, this one works for both SATA and older IDE/PATA drives.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817388002

2. Yes, but only if you buy an adapter (for example, Expresscard to Firewire)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839328038

3. Yes, it will only operate at USB 2.0 speed.

4. Yes, external drives often have multiple connection types.

5. It generally doesn’t affect transfer speed. However, your system bus can only safely provide a limited amount of power to USB devices. So devices with their own power supplies eliminate that load, avoiding freezes/lockups which can occur if USB devices are drawing too much power.

I have 4 1TB external hard drives. Could I plug them directly into a RAID enclosure or would I need to remove the hard drives from the external cases and install them in the RAID?

Your best bet would be an external RAID enclosure.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/external-raid-storage,1922.html

Remember: YOU MUST MAKE COPYS OF YOUR SAVE FILES BEFORE CHANGING MINECRAFT IN ANY WAY!

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Ok, so i have a set(2) of external 3 terabyte hard drives that i use for storing all my media like music, movies, tv shows etc.. I have them mirroring each-other with RAID but ive noticed that every time i go back to re-watch an old movie or watch a tv episode, the quality drops tremendously. There mostly all HD and up so its easy to notice a difference in quality. What causes this and how to prevent it?

I own a business and use Quickbooks, but need to transport that information to other computers. Is it possible to have it installed onto the external hard drive instead of my computer’s hard drive? Or can games be installed on there? Are they basically just useful for storing data and pictures? Kind of like a flash drive on steroids? Just wondering exactly what the external drives are capable of.

External hard drives are no different from internal ones, once they’re connected.
I would recommend that you leave QuickBooks installed on your main internal Windows drive. But there’s nothing stopping you saving (or moving) the QuickBooks data file onto the external hard drive and accessing it there. It would mean you could move the Quickbooks data files between computers easily, but you would have to have a working installation of Quickbooks wherever you wanted to use it.
I would not recommend you trying to install Quickbooks itself to an external hard drive. This is because Windows applications install themselves usually to a hard drive, but also put information into the Windows ‘Registry’, which is a store of useful little bits of information for a program. If you tried to run Quickbooks from an external hard drive on a computer which you hadn’t installed it on, it COULD fail to load. I say ‘could’ because some applications don’t tie themselves too tightly to the Registry, and Quickbooks could be one of them because I think I ran Quicken successfully after copying it.

Other than that, external hard drives are great for backing up data. People always think backing up is a great idea and never get around to doing it until after they’ve suffered a computer failure. So I’d get one for backing up your important stuff. if you burn yours onto CD/DVD already then fair enough.

External hard drives these days either use Firewire or USB 2.0 connections. If your computer is recent enough it should have USB 2.0 which is faster than the first version of USB. Trying to move large files of data on USB 1 is painfully slow.
External hard drives can have much bigger capacities than flash drives because they are using magnetic disks inside them instead of flash memory.
So, when moving lots of data around, backing up your important files, then external hard drives are the way to go!
Hope this helped.

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The Iomega eGo Desktop Hard Drive, Mac® Edition is a sleek silver drive which includes your choice of Firewire 800 or USB 2.0 interface. So whatever connection you choose, there’s one perfect for you and with up to 2TB, you can easily save all your files. It includes a 3 year limited warranty when you register your product.

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this video shows how to back up data from your ps3 hard drive on to an external hard drive before installing a new hard drive into your console. Rate comment subscribe !!

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Had a friend who wanted to know how to initialize his new drive. Now he knows, and so do you!

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How To Convert External Hard Drive NTFS to FAT32 even 1 TB and Up

Just Download EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition I will post the link in the description box

http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol%3bpop&cdlPid=10982635

After that open easeus partition master home edition

then right click and select format choose fat32 and apply the changes it will take a while if there are more files and programs running

all kind of external drive even up to 1tb

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o this can be use on PS3

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