External Hard Drive
An external hard drive is any hard drive which attaches to a port on the outside of a computer case.
External hard drives are extremely useful for backing up computers and for moving data between computers.
External Hard Drive Interfaces
External hard drives can be connected using several popular interfaces. One external hard drive may support two or more of these interfaces.
FireWire
FireWire, almost known as IEEE 1394, is a popular interface for Macintosh external hard drives, and became somewhat popular on PC’s before USB 2.0 was standardized.
USB
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a standard for connecting a wide range of devices, including external hard drives, PDA’s, and Sony PlayStations.
USB 1.x was not fast enough to satisfy most users of external hard drives. USB 2.0 provides slightly better performance than FireWire in most applications.
eSATA
eSATA is the newest standard for external hard drives.
eSATA is an extension of the Serial ATA standard which allows the use of external hard drives.
An external hard drive using an eSATA connection will not suffer a performance penalty imposed by encapsulating the ATA data inside the USB or FireWire protocols, because the eSATA external hard drive uses the same communications protocol as the internal hard drives.
Ethernet
A few external hard drives offer Ethernet connections.
These drives include intelligent electronics to enable them to act like file servers.
These external hard drives are actually low-end network attached storage devices.
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i Have transcend external hard disk. Suddenly stop working.
It never fall from me. It was kept connected with my laptop. Everything was working fine. Now it stops automatically. When connected to other computer/laptop, it dont show up. The disk inside is also not moving. No noise nothing.
I opened the case clean the circuit and PCB inside using CRC( Circuit Cleaner) and connect back. Nothing comes up.
What could be a problem Pls help me as i have important data in it.
Regards
Vijay
I have a seagate Momentus 5400.5 160GB HD, it was in a plastic external case. It dropped from my laptop bag. And now its not working. When i connect it the light with the casing turns on and there is beeping sound from the HD, but it is not detectable on my laptop. Please suggest what is wrong or what item may be broken and replaceable. Much of my office work and some private data is stored in the HD which I really need.