Sabtu, 06 November 2010

The Best Backup Devices: External Hard Drive

Want to backup quickly and easily? Backup to external hard disk drives. Backup to external hard disk drives easily, securely and efficiently.

As a hard disk is the fastest and largest backup medium you can get, you may want to backup all your important files to an external hard drive. You can backup literally everything: your Outlook and Outlook Express files, your bookmarks, your favourite save games, and of course, your important work documents, photos, images and maybe even videos.

As an external hard drisk drive is detatched from your system and, combined with a strong encryption algorithm, like blowfish or 3DES, you can get maximum security. Just make sure you actually remember the encryption password. You can also store your external hard disk offsite (at a friend's house, a paid locker or specialized fire-proof storage place) in case your information is very important (well, generally, anyone can do that and it can't hurt for sure).

As external hard disk drives have the cheapest storage volume (about 2Tb for $150?) and you can reuse them for several years, you may as well get the cheapest backup medium at your disposal. When using a backup schedule, you can simply backup the backup program run when you are absent (or maybe even at night) to backup everything without supervision. If you need two or more backup disks, you may as well get another external hard disk drive.

Also, now there are quite large mobile hard drives, which can admit all the necessary data: work documents, e-mail files, etc. You can also carry your data anywhere you want and feel safe, because some external hard disks are now hard to break by dropping.

So, go with external hard disk drive and backup as fast as you want, as much as you want, secure your important data, get the cheapest backups and even be able to carry your backups anywhere you want.

Senin, 07 Desember 2009

How To Choose Desktop Computer


In this era, computers are almost be our primary needs after eat, house and clothes. As we know,so many brands and specifications of computers, desktop personal computers (desktop pc) or notebook, netbook are available on the market. So when we want to buy new desktop pc, we should think the cost, and what the computer is used for, related to computer's specification.

Here is little guide how to choose new desktop computer:

Microsoft Windows Vista is here and if we were looking for a new PC that is what I would choose. Unless you want to run software that you know will not run with Vista (check for updates from the software manufacturer) then why go for the older technology? XP will be obsolete sooner rather than later. Vista looks and feels better and has better integrated security.

Vista Home Premium has all the features a home user could want including Media Center, Windows Aero desktop, DVD and Movie Makers. If you do not need those extra facilities then save a few pounds with Vista Business or Basic.

You can go to microsoft webpage to see specifications of Microsoft XP and Vista.

2. How Much Memory Do I Need?

Most PCs are now sold with 1GB of Ram and if using Vista we would not look at anything with less than this, it should be Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM. Personally we would insist on 2GB for a Vista machine. The minimum for an XP machine should be 512MB, but preferably 1GB.

It staggers us when we see Vista PCs for sale with just 512MB of RAM, it is not enough and in my opinion these laptops are being miss-sold. If you have found yourself in the unfortunate position of owning such a machine then you need to upgrade your memory.

3. Hard Drive Size

Hard drives these days are massive and cheap so 80GB is the minimum you should expect. Preferably Serial ATA (SATA). Some machines come with dual hard drives which may or may not be mirrored in a RAID array. A second hard drive is great for backups and the mirrored raid array means you have two identical hard drives, should one fail.

4. Standard Specifications.

These are the specifications that any modern PC should be supplied with.

  • Built in 100MHz Network Card.
  • DVD±RW Drive.
  • High Speed USB2 Ports.
  • Built in Sound Card.