4 Reasons You Need an external Storage device
Lets Travel Back to 1999 when the world’s First Pendrive launched it was of 1GB Storage.it was more than enough at that time.But now in 2024 even if you buy the 30TB (Highest Capacity Consumer Storage as of 2024) hard disk drive from Seagate, You will still question yourself ‘is it enough for me’.With the advancement of technologies, storage requirements have no limits.A 4k(UHD) Video of 1 hour easily eats up 20gb Storage.A triple-layer Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie disk Can take upto 100GB.Video Games Like ‘ark: Survival Evolved’ takes upto 400GB Disk Space.So an External Storage device is a Must have thing in this Era.Here are top 6 Reasons to Buy an External Storage.
You will not need high Storage Smartphones.
DSLR Camera Storage
I have seen my friends multiple SD Cars to store pictures. I suggeyou to avoid that because The chances of data corruption for Micro SD card (basically any flash memory card) is higher than SSD and HDD.instead you can store those in your PC/Laptop & move to external storage whenever necessary.Also managing you Pictures on Computer is more easier than using it in your Camera.
ipad/iphone/ icloud User
As we know,we can’t expand our storage in iPhone Unlike Adroid phones which come with SD card Slot.For Example, iPhone 15 Pro Max 256 GB Cost $1199, But the 512 GB Variant Cost $1399.if you are confused to buy which one, Consider these factors.if You mostly travel long distances,shoot long videos,Cant keep latops with you & edit videos on the go then go with the higher storage variant.it will quite convenient.But if you are a casual user & mostly use laptop,Desktop for your productive works then I will suggest you to go with the lower storage variant & invest those money on external storage or you may have subscribe to Apple’s iCloud Storage which starts from $0.99 for 50GB to all the way upto $59.99 for 12TB.
Instal & Play Games
I know it know it may sound weird, but you can play games from your external HDD/SSD.Suppose you have less storage & You can’t afford to buy new internal HDD, SSD .You can use the External Storage you already have to install & play games.Just Make sure the Hard drive/SSD Drive file system is in NTFS format or you maye need to format it again with NTFS. Though modern harddrives already comes with NTFS extension. Also do note that if you install a Game from Computer 1 to your HDD, it will not be played to other PC just by plugging the harddrive.Some games might work, but some games like GTA 5 won[‘t workl & you might see dll file error.Also while playing if the harddrive disconnects from USB Accidentaly, your game will crash. So for Professional/long term gamers, I won’t recommend this method.
Quickly Save windows Data Before format
If your PC gets infected with virus, You Can easily backup all your data to your external drive to perform a clean windows installation.After windows installation you can again transfer all you data back to your computer.
Bonus Tips
If you have multiple PCs you can opt for NAS Drive (Network-attached storage) which offers large capacity of storage & Convenient to use for multiple Computers.
Also occasionally delete unnecessary files to free up your storage Space.
