With the cost of computer memory plummeting, more and more people are choosing to buy and use external hard drives to store and back up their data. There are many choices of brands for hard drives, including Western Digital, Sony, MyBook and others. You can also choose between getting a USB 2.0 drive and a FireWire drive, both of which offer transfer speeds of ~400 Mbps (megabits per second.) A common choice for an external drive is one manufactured by SimpleTech. Installing a SimpleTech drive is very easy. Warnings Writer Bio
