Comments on: A Beginner’s Guide to External Hard Drives https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/ Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:12:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Get Fuzzy https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327544 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:25:44 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327544 Dear Nicole: I just read this and want to congratulate you on your clear and charming prose. I’m a retired English teacher and always want to congratulate people who write well. I look forward to reading your other pieces!

]]> By: Mohammad Al-Halis https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327448 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:52:09 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327448 Can you use an external hard drive just as an space expansion for your pc?

]]> By: GottaSay https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327301 Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:20:14 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327301 Are 1TB drives safer for relaible storage than 1.5TB ones ? I have found a good deal for the 1.5tb one but reliablity is the most important factor.

]]> By: Ashish https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327243 Tue, 26 May 2020 13:10:05 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327243 Hey I want to buy 5tb external, usb charging hard drive for laptop to store files as archive, which company will be great. Heard lots of bad news about Seaget, wd…so which has low failure rate? Hgst?, do they make external hard disk Please guide. Thanks.

]]> By: AntonK https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327125 Fri, 01 May 2020 21:42:33 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327125 In reply to AntonK.

In short, is there any reason that an external drive being used in part for backup, should not be used for regular file location/storage purposes. Is dual-use ok?

]]> By: AntonK https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327124 Fri, 01 May 2020 20:57:39 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327124 In reply to Nicole C Perry.

Hi, and thanks for your response.

Yes. I’m a Backblaze customer, so my computer is being backed up there 24/7.

I’m also backing up my workaday files via Windows 10 File History Backup to the SSD I mentioned above. But there’s a lot of unused room on that SSD.

Thanks.

]]> By: YevP https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327119 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:10:07 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327119 In reply to Two none.

Heheh, but of course!

]]> By: Two none https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327118 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:41:58 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327118 In reply to YevP.

Agreed, but considering the site that generated this article, I considered #3 a given. ;-)

]]> By: Nicole C Perry https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-external-hard-drives/#comment-327117 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:31:53 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=95247#comment-327117 In reply to AntonK.

Are you backing up your workday files with another source? If not, we recommend backing up that data in the cloud to protect it if anything were to happen.

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