About Laptop External Hard Drives

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about laptop external drives. Now an external drive is a hard drive that can be used as external storage space that would actually be separate from your laptop or your desktop computer. They're typically fairly small, you know, about this size. I have one here, I'm going to show it to you. This one is actually allow you to use your, any type of cards that you may have to use in a camera or something like that. You can actually use those as an external drive through this device. This one will base its storage on the size of the cards that you put into there, but there are external laptop hard drives that can hold as much as, you know, two-hundred, three-hundred gigabytes of space, and they almost all have a USB connection just like this one right here. So all you have to do is when you have your laptop external hard drive is just take your USB and we're just going to plug it into the computer, and if you can see my computer screen, it's going to recognize that I've just plugged in an external hard drive, and in a moment it's going to pop up a little window asking me what I would like to do with it. Now, what you can do with an external hard drive, I suggest you use it to back up important files or what not. You just stick it in the closet, every now and then pull it out of the closet, plug it in, copy your files over there to back it up, and then unplug it and stick it back in the closet, and there you have a back-up of your files. I'm going to go ahead and open it myself. If you open up "My Computer" your removable drive will show up as a removable disk in Windows. I've got to find which one, since this particular one reads multiple cards. I've got to figure out which one is the correct one to use. Make sure I've got it plugged in right. There we go. Alright, so it shows up here as new drive "F". So, now that I have my new drive F pulled up, I can just pull some files off of my computer and just copy them onto this F Drive. And that is now actually external from my computer, and if I unplug it, that will disappear, and now that file is stored on this little external hard drive. My name's Dave Andrews, and I've just talked to you a little bit about laptop external hard drives."