Data corruption or virus infection on your computer is the most problem that you can see very often. To avoid that, you must back up your data in the CD, DVD, and for the best result using the external hard drive. With the external hard drive, you can get the large size of data storage, so you can back up more data from your computer. Not only that, with this, your data is safer and secure.

If we look the first computer, it's big like house. This is proving that this external save storage is not the new technology. But if we look the external hard drive now, it shape size is small than a briefcase. So it's simpler than the old one. Even before they are a company that use the internal hard drive outside the computer case, but external hard drive now is safer

External hard drive is using a USB and Fire Wire to connect to your computer. These types of connection are faster and safer than an internal hard drive connection. Its can transfer data from computer to external hard drive to computer, and to the other way six time faster than internal hard drive. You also can switch the connection that you want use, USB or Fire Wire.
External hard drive also has the massive size of the data storage container. Usually, it has 60 GB of it data storage size. But now, you even find an external hard drive that has 1000 GB of the data storage size, or it usually now as 1 Terabyte. This Terabyte area is having great effect for the data saver world. With this size, you can safe many large data, like DVD movies, multimedia files and more in it.

But if we look the main purpose of the external hard drive, is use for save your important data from your computer so it is safe from virus, and also prevent and avoid data loss or corruption. For the back up data from the computer, you may have difficulty to pick which data that you want you back up from many data from your computer. But with the CD driver that usually add in the package of this external hard drive, you can simply run the software within, and can easily back up your data. But to back up, you can use the other alternative back up method. Such as with a DVD or more, also with online back up that many website provide with the save data service that can protect your data and email.

Last thing, maybe you look for the cheaper price and the unnamed company external hard drive to save your budget. But if you want to have a long life external hard drive, you must choose the very well know, and the top manufacture, such a Maxtor, Iomega, and Western Digital, that can give you a warranties for their product. So you can get the safety product and also with the high quality, although you must spend more money from your budget.