COMPUTER HARDWARE
STORAGE DEVICES
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Question
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Cannot be moved from 1 place
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Low processing power
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Low storage capacity
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Easily transported
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Detailed explanation-1: -External hard drives can be corrupted, like any other piece of hardware. They can be susceptible to fire and water damage, can overheat, and can malfunction. There is nothing worse than feeling like you’ve backed up your important data, only to find out that your backup solution has failed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hard drives can be difficult to manufacture. Hard drives are usually physically smaller than solid state drives, which means that they have less capacity for backing up data. Hard drives are prone to scratches because they have a moving read/write head, and this can make parts of files unreadable.
Detailed explanation-3: -Relies on moving parts. The disk surface can be damaged. Heavy power consumption. It is noisy. Slower read and write speed than RAM. Slower to access than a hard disk. It is expensive. The regular head can crash and damage the surface of the disk. More items