Typical Backup Destination Media for Home Users
January 11th, 2010Internal hard drives: Hard drives are relatively inexpensive and efficient but they are prone to viruses or software corruption due to other software running on the system. You can’t store it in a location separate from your computer. You have to install it in another computer in case you have problems with the computer and you need to recover the backed up data.
External hard drives: An external hard drive can easily be attached to your computer using a USB port. External hard drives can be stored in a location that’s separate from your computer, which can help protect your backup. You need to connect it with your computer every time a data backup is done and is usually slower than internal hard drives. Read more »
