What is the difference between… a portable hard drive from an external hard drive?
What is the difference between... a portable hard drive from an external hard drive?
do they function differently or just the same?
explain more about the two.
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3 Responses
Mike - November 18, 2009
External HDD only sit outside of your computer and they are not portable in relation to their size. .
A portable HDD is like a flash drive which can be used from PC to PC and you can just put it in your pocket.
Chis - November 18, 2009
The above answer is incorrect. They are the same thing just with different names.
What the user above is talking about is a USB Stick or a Flash Drive. You could never fit a hard disk in your pocket. Unless you were a clown.
Steve B - November 18, 2009
Actually, external hard drives are portable. In that sense, there is no difference (if a drive is external, it is portable). I use mine to backup critical data on multiple pc’s before upgrades.