As I understand, a Portable Hard Drive is a drag and drop storage device that relieves memory storage on my PC. True?
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It is just pug and play. It is USB 3.0 (it comes with a short cable) but you can plug it on a USB 2.0 port and it works perfectly with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. You can use it for a backup, if you need more memory or just if you don't want to fill the hard disk of your computer. Enjoy it!
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Alex, you asked "Is this drive fully portable, or does it need a power cord?" This external drive is fully portable and needs no external power source. You have one USB to USB connection to your PC or laptop, etcetera, which when connected is assigned a driver by Windows and power is supplied by that one connection in addition to communicating with your PC as an external drive.
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No you can only store files like a stick drive. Its only designed for storage
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Whatever fits your personal need. I would do cloud storage since I'm on the go. But here are some of your options 1) External HDD 2) Cloud storage 3) USB sticks
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For most phones, the PC will see the phone as a storage device. Files can then be dropped on to the phones internal or SD card if phone has one.
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From what I understand, the SSD is a part of the mechanical HD. In this type of drive configuration, you typically do not have access to the SSD as a drive. In stead, the SSD acts as cache storage to speed up access to frequently used files and applications.
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It's not true. Actually, they did last less than magnetic hard disk drives. Technology is getting better and better, so the lifecycle is evolving. Information can be written and re written several times, but it's recommended to avoid high frequency writes, like memory swapping. Honestly, I think you shouldn't worry about it.
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It's a hollow case, It's not a hard drive. It's a hard drive case. It converts your internal hard drive inside your desktop into a portable external hard drive via usb cable.
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Its all in its purpose. Back up, expansion, paperweight, Golf tee. I have by default 2 physical drives in my computers at any given time., The second drive is "an expansion" of space, but is also physically separated so it will serve as a "Backup" with a windows system image as well as all of my other files, should the operating system drive go down.Most of that is marketing on the part of Seagate.
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No the HDD is a Seagate thin notebook Hybrid Drive that is a portion of the drive is Solid State which may improve performance on repetitive access be careful about theBrands of external Hard Drives you attach because some of the supplied software may cause the PC to respond very slowly
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Pretty much. My friend and I were discussing this when my hard drive was failing. Basically, these hard drives are just refurbished of hard drives and they put them into the external hard drives (like these).
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No. It is a storage system for the physical disks. It doesn't store the data.
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I use Thumb drives and not mechanical Hard drives in my media-share. I had data on them and it was recognized. Fro that< I would assume that a Mechanical Hard Drive would react in the same manner.
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Yes It is a personal cloud. You can store any type of file. But the biggest advantage is with multimedia files.
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It's a solid state hardrive. That means that it is much faster than your typical 5400rpm/7200rpm hardrives. Instead of reading your memory off a rotating disk, it uses flash storage similar to your usb keys. the capacity is 1Tb, or 1024 gb of storage
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Yes, the portable drive has a burner and a laser reader in it for creating or removing information on/from disks
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Yes, you can drag and drop while in Hard Drive mode (not Sync mode which is for use with WMP), as well as any other file. I use this mode all the time, I have no need to "sync" anything, just add it to my 705 or remove items.I haven't used my device for just music (no video) so I can't say what the life is like, though it does last a good amount of time for video (standard at least for any portable video device if not better), so I wouldn't really be that concerned by it. You can buy a spare battery here at Amazon (it's Gen 4 for the 704 device but is the same battery), and it's about $28-29 which isn't too bad compared to prices for other "spare/replaceable" batteries for portable devices. Yes, you can drag and drop while in Hard Drive mode (not Sync mode which is for use with WMP), as well as any other file. I use this mode all the time, I have no need to "sync" anything, just add it to my 705 or remove items.I haven't used my device for just music (no video) so I can't say what the life is like, though it does last a good amount of time for video (standard at least for any portable video device if not better), so I wouldn't really be that concerned by it. You can buy a spare battery here at Amazon (it's Gen 4 for the 704 device but is the... » Read More Yes, you can drag and drop while in Hard Drive mode (not Sync mode which is for use with WMP), as well as any other file. I use this mode all the time, I have no need to "sync" anything, just add it to my 705 or remove items.I haven't used my device for just music (no video) so I can't say what the life is like, though it does last a good amount of time for video (standard at least for any portable video device if not better), so I wouldn't really be that concerned by it. You can buy a spare battery here at Amazon (it's Gen 4 for the 704 device but is the same battery), and it's about $28-29 which isn't too bad compared to prices for other "spare/replaceable" batteries for portable devices. « Show Less