Flash drives are essential items for transferring and storing information. They are used by every person, regardless of status and position. It is necessary to understand the smallest details about which of them is better, more reliable and more durable.
Modern users need to separate official and personal information. This can be facilitated by various reasons: virus attacks, confidential or proprietary information that should not be publicly available for obvious reasons. For this purpose, removable storage devices are used. Which one is better: USB stick or external hard drive?
Pros and cons of portable devices
In the question of what is better to choose for working with information, one should start from its importance, the speed of access to it and the requirements that are put forward to the carrier. A flash drive and an external hard drive have their own advantageous features and difficulties, they are worth paying attention to.
Benefits of an external hard drive
1. Convenient and durable.
2. Places in itself large files, there is no need to use multiple flash drives.
3. The ability to use the disk is unlimited, unlike a USB flash drive, which expires after a 10-thousandth recording.
The disadvantages of the device are as follows: the requirement for an additional port for power is expensive, for a 250 GB device you need to pay up to three thousand rubles, low resistance to temperature changes.
There are two types of external hard drives: standard 3.5 "and miniature 2.5". The first of them plays the role of increasing the memory on a laptop or computer. It is heavy and also requires additional food. The second one has less weight and memory size, but at the same time has anti-shock properties.
Characteristics of the flash drive
1. Low price of the device. Let's say a device with 16 GB of memory will cost up to 800 rubles.
2. Convenient to use, takes up little space, practical in office work, for schoolchildren and students.
3. Has a high speed of information reading or writing.
4. Low absorption of electricity, which is very important if the laptop is not connected to the network.
5. Large selection of shapes and colors of flash drives.
The disadvantages include the absence of a USB port in some gadgets, as well as the impossibility of playing information if the flash drive is "broken".
Answering the question which device is preferable: an external hard drive or a flash drive, I must say that it is better to have both on your desktop. Although the confrontation between the two necessary devices of the user will continue for a long time.
Information is measured in colossal volumes, there is a sorely lack of storage space. We need compact media that provide a large volume. It is clear that only an external hard drive meets these requirements.
