Considerations for using a removable hard drive

The biggest function of the mobile hard disk is the storage function, the equivalent is the giant u disk, is the storage capacity and the appearance big volume storage tool. So What are the important things to note when using the giant U-disk? Here's what to share with you about using your mobile drive.

currently on the market for mobile hard drives generally support Plug and play installation, many friends after the data transfer is complete, directly unplug USB plug. Although in most cases, the data is not lost, but the long-term repetition of such operations, serious impact on the mobile hard disk bad channel generation. A condition such as an unrecognized transmission instability or a crash may occur when you use it again.

1. Zoning appropriately

in the WIN XP operating system, every time we insert a mobile hard disk, the system will automatically search for new hardware, all partitions preferably not more than 2 , or when the drive to start the mobile disk will increase the system to retrieve and use wait time.

2. failure caused by insufficient power supply

Since most of the data moved by the HDD is USB to direct power, in some cases, due to insufficient power to the USB interface caused by the inability to read and cause hard disk damage. Recently, almost all of the mobile hard drives come with a separate external power supply or a PS2 adapter that takes power from the keyboard , and some uses a dual USB interface to power it.

Therefore, we must first check the power supply problem before use, try not to use USB Extension Cable, try not to use the front USB interface, these interfaces, although convenient for users, but because the data line itself and the power supply in the transmission will consume a portion of the power, so sometimes caused by insufficient power to read the data.

3. set the CMOS parameters reasonably

The removable hard drive cannot be detected correctly after it is correctly connected to your computer USB device. This may be the default CMOS port of the motherboard is turned off, and if it is not set to ON, Windows will naturally not be able to detect the removable hard drive.

This is a situation that has never been used USB External device friends often encounter, the solution is to enter the CMOS Setup window, and in the "pnp/pci CONFIGURATION" column will be "Assign irqfor USB "One item is set to" Enableso that the system can assign an available interrupt address to the USB port.

4. file Transfer Aspects

data from a removable hard drive COPY to our computer, the big data is much faster than the small fragmented transmission. Therefore, we can carry out the package processing before the COPY small file, so that we can complete the data transfer faster.

5. do not permanently connect the mobile drive to the computer

mobile Hard disk is used to temporarily store exchange data, not the local hard disk, just like our U disk,MP3 and Other storage devices, not suitable for a long time to plug in our computer. Therefore , after the data COPY is completed, the hard drive should be removed and not plugged into the computer for a long time. Long-term use will produce greater heat and shorten its service life.

6. do not defragment frequently and format frequently

The removable hard drive is not our local hard drive, and the defragmentation improves its read speed, but rather the opposite. If you do, it is strongly recommended that you copy all data to your local hard disk before doing so.

Mobile Hard disk is our familiar large-capacity storage tools, many users are more casual, but if there is a large number of important data stored inside, it is recommended that users have some measures to the mobile hard disk Management and protection.

Considerations for using a removable hard drive