A type of hard disk drive which is connected to a computer or laptop using a USB cable or other means is called an external or portable hard drive. It can be quite a useful piece of equipment for using as a back up or storing important information separately from the main internal hard drive. All kinds of sensitive documents including large music files, DVD images, movies, disk images and a lot more can be safely stored on an external hard drive. Another important feature of an external hard drive is that you can even turn off the hard drive when you are online to avoid any kind of leakage of the stored information.
One of the biggest manufacturers of external hard drives is the Hewlett-Packard Company, which is the largest technology company in the world and has its distributors worldwide. People all over the world have a faith in HP products, such is the status created by the company over the years. Like all the other products manufactured by this world leader, the HP external hard drive is also a popular and reliable line of products. Some of the recent entries to the collection of HP external hard drive have been discussed ahead.
The Hewlett-Packard HP Pocket Media Drive 500GB (HPBAAA5000ASL) is a USB hard drive with a storage capacity of 500 GB and a form factor of 2.5 inches. The Hewlett-Packard HP Pocket Media Drive 320GB, Hewlett-Packard HP Personal Media Drive 300GB and the Hewlett-Packard HP MultiBay 20GB (Carbonite) are some of the other products in the range.
