Totally Awesome Storage Possibilities
Rather than trying to replace my hard drive — or buy a new computer, for that matter — I’ve come to love Seagate’s line of portable external hard drives.
All you need to do is plug the drive into one of your USB ports and you’re ready to go. The drive will show up on your computer as “Drive F” or something similar. You can move your files from Drive C to your external drive and clear up a lot of space on your computer.
Seagate now has a 1.5 TB unit — that’s 1.5 terrabytes. To put it into perspective, just 1 TB would hold 220 million pages of text. A terrabyte is the equivalent of 1,000 gigabytes, so you can imagine how much extra storage you will have for your documents, images, music, videos and ebooks.
What makes these portable storage units really sweet is that you can store all of your data on your unit, unplug it and connect it to another computer. This is fantastic if you travel and need to access your data. It’s also comforting to know that if your computer breaks down, you still have all of your data on the portable unit.
For those of us small business people who are constantly challenged with hard drive space, portable storage units are a great solution. And with Seagate’s 1.5 TB capabilities, we’ll have enough room to store data for months, if not years, to come.
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