Week 6: Clear

Knowing about storage on your computer is very important because you're going to want to have a place to save all the work you do on your computer. Documents and such that you save on your computer are stored on a hard drive, a device inside the computer that essentially saves all your data and information.

But what if you are running low on storage space, want to be able to take that date with you on the go or want a secondary source of storage as a back-up?

That is where external hard drives come into play.



Whenever I would head home my dad would always back-up all my work on an external hard drive. I just let him do his work and never understood why he would need to do that. I thought of it as a waste of time.

Then one day a piece of hardware inside my laptop stopped working and I had to send it to get fixed. When my laptop was returned to me it turned out that the hard drive had been reformatted, or wiped clean, meaning that all my saved work was gone forever.

Luckily, because my father always backed-up my work on the external hard drive, I just had to plug it in and copy all the documents and files. My laptop was then back to normal.

Now I understand the full complexity about why an external hard drive is necessary if you have a lot of files on your computer. An external hard drive isn't just a device for extra storage, but is also there to back-up files in case information on your computer's hard drive gets erased.