Hard Drives Storage Capacity Needs

By Andreas Lee

The needs of hard drives storage capacity are limitless. When I was in primary school, my computer hard drives storage capacity was only 100 MB. At that time I felt the capacity is awesome and can store a large amount of data without fearing the hard drives storage is full. And now we can see, just by storing one digital camera photo file needs 2 MB hard drives storage capacity. It means 100 MB capacity can store only 50 digital camera photo files. Wow!

The first hard drive invented by IBM in 1956 only had 5 MB storage capacity or 5 million bytes, compare with the current hard drives storage capacity which reaches 8 TB or 8 trillion bytes. This is to proof that the hard drives storage capacity needs always increasing.

You do not need to buy a new computer if you need more hard drives storage. You only need to purchase internal hard drives and then install it on motherboard, or to make things easier you can buy external hard drives because besides easier to use by just plugging in the external hard drive USB cable to the USB port, it can also be taken handy.

Buy External Desktop Hard Drives For Your Hard Drives Storage

If you need a large hard drives storage capacity, it’s better to choose the external desktop hard drives. Although it has a larger size than the portable external hard drives, but the capacity is greater. My choice falls on ‘My Book Studio Edition’.

external hard drives storage

My Book Studio Edition silver metallic color is available in 1 GB, 750 GB, 640 GB, 500 GB and 320 GB capacity. The shape and the size are like a dictionary, elegant, and can be easily put in your laptop bag. You will never be bored looking on it, especially if you put it beside your laptop. It has a capacity gauge on one side that indicates how much capacity you have used. Does not require installation CD, just plug in and can be used right away.

Check the price at several sites to find the best price. Tips to find the best price: input the product name on google and press ’search’ button. The result will be displayed, click on ’shopping results for My Book Studio Edition’ link to find the best price.

System Requirements

• Available USB, FireWire, or eSATA port
• Mac^® OS X 10.4.8 or later

• Windows^® 2000/XP/Vista

Package Includes

• External hard drive
• USB cable
• FireWire 800 cable
• FireWire 800 to 400 cable
• AC adapter
• Quick Install Guide

Please also check out my other guide on external drives