about harddrive Internal or External?

[AceHunter]

Just curious which is an better option since both of them are priced almost the same......

 

The reason why I have concern about this is because External 3.5 ones have AC adapter.

 

I live in an apartment where sometimeI might experience power outage for few minute,so is external hhd an better option when during power outage?

[Damikiller37]

Well no the external won't be a better option since as soon as the power is gone it will turn off. Unless you have a good reason to have an external hard drive such as; you travel a lot with it and don't want to take the computer with you then it will be handy. Otherwise I would just go with an internal.

[AceHunter]

Well no the external won't be a better option since as soon as the power is gone it will turn off. Unless you have a good reason to have an external hard drive such as; you travel a lot with it and don't want to take the computer with you then it will be handy. Otherwise I would just go with an internal.

 

but if the power is off, the computer will be off too, and the power of the computer is mostly used for cpu and gpu. So when it comes to power outage isnt the first thing that motherboards do is to protect cpu and gpu? 

[TheRetiredSlave]

For just mass storage of files and other stuff? Or to install games and applications?

 

I'd get the external drive if you think you're ever going to need to take your files with you somewhere.. If you're installing games, an internal drive will most likely perform substantially better, which should minimize load times.

There's probably no practical difference in terms of power loss protection.. I've lost power in the middle of actively using my PC a couple times, and I've never had anything die. If you're really worried, the best thing to do is get a battery backup or something like that.

[AceHunter]

For just mass storage of files and other stuff? Or to install games and applications?

 

I'd get the external drive if you think you're ever going to need to take your files with you somewhere.. If you're installing games, an internal drive will most likely perform substantially better, which should minimize load times.

There's probably no practical difference in terms of power loss protection.. I've lost power in the middle of actively using my PC a couple times, and I've never had anything die. If you're really worried, the best thing to do is get a battery backup or something like that.

 

 

Its for mass storage, and is there a problem with 4TB for internal? I see people saying that their machine can only recognize around 2TB of storage when they installed a 3TB hdd.

[FizzyFantom]

Its for mass storage, and is there a problem with 4TB for internal? I see people saying that their machine can only recognize around 2TB of storage when they installed a 3TB hdd.

This is an issue with MBR. MBR (Master Boot Record) is a type of partition table that used to be the main option, but now many OS support GPT. Windows uses MBR by default when installing and MBR can only make partitions of up to 2TBs in size. Windows can use GPT and frequently uses GPT on installation to an unformatted drive and for using larger HDDs. Don't be put off by that, there are ways to resolve it if you do encounter that issue.

As for external and internal, an external drive would be more useful in case you need to take it somewhere or don't have room in your PC. As for the MB protecting internal HDDs, it will do (with the PSU doing most of the work in that case), but in the event of a power loss it is very unlikely the drive will become corrupted internally or externally.

Go for whichever is more practical for you

[AceHunter]

This is an issue with MBR. MBR (Master Boot Record) is a type of partition table that used to be the main option, but now many OS support GPT. Windows uses MBR by default when installing and MBR can only make partitions of up to 2TBs in size. Windows can use GPT and frequently uses GPT on installation to an unformatted drive and for using larger HDDs. Don't be put off by that, there are ways to resolve it if you do encounter that issue.

As for external and internal, an external drive would be more useful in case you need to take it somewhere or don't have room in your PC. As for the MB protecting internal HDDs, it will do (with the PSU doing most of the work in that case), but in the event of a power loss it is very unlikely the drive will become corrupted internally or externally.

Go for whichever is more practical for you

 

Will having a 4TB external hhd have to solve the MBR problem too?