Who doesn’t like to use more storage in a hard disk to save myriads of movies, songs and pictures without having to compromise on deleting some of them just to make space for new ones? An extra storage space will not only aide to back up your data but also serve to share data between computers. To buy hard disk online is most convenient and effective means in procuring that extra storage.
Most of the time, you just need to plug it into the computer as external hard disk or use it as an internal hard drive interfaced directly onto motherboard. Following are 2 categories of hard disk on sale at eZmaal.com
External hard drives:
- External hard disks are easy to connect to PC or Laptop through USB interface 2.0 or 3.0
- Has storage capacity ranging from 500GB to 2 TB.
- Comes with form factor of 2.5 or 3.5 inch
- Rotation per minute (RPM) choice between 5400 or 7200
- Cache memory of 8MB or 16 MB
Here’s a list of the top external hard disk manufacturers at eZmaal.com: Transcend, Buffalo, Seagate, Western Digital, Adata
Internal hard drives:
Internal hard disk comes in 3 forms, HDD (Hard Disk Drives), SSD (Solid State Drives) and futuristic Hybrid Disk Drives.
- Interface – SATA 3 GB/s or 6 GB/s for HDD and SATA 6 GB/s, II, III for SSD.
- HDD has storage capacity ranging from 250GB to 3 TB. Whereas SSDs has capacity ranging from 60GB to 256GB.
- Comes with form factor of 2.5 or 3.5 inch
- Rotation per minute (RPM) of 5400 or 7200 for HDD while SSDs comes with varied speed of 5400, 5900, 7200 and 10000 RPM respectively.
- Cache memory of 16 MB or 64MB for HDD.
Internal hard drives on sale at eZmaal.com include:
Seagate and Western Digital offering HDD, OCz, Intel, Corsair, Transcend, Sandisk, Verbatim offering SSD.
Even though storage capacity of SSD is less when compared to HDD, it is efficient and shock resistant making it ideal for laptop and other mobile devices.