The external hard drive is a non-standard USB devices, it’s not much reliability as small USB devices such as the mouse, the problem is greater, the following tips can help you to buy a better external hard drive, and more efficient and better to use and protect it!
1, You should better not to buy too cheap products, because the price will determine materials of external hard disk box, rather over-simplify can not guarantee the stable operation, and it will bring hidden dangers for future, it is recommended that Members will consider products which working excellent and have quality assurance.
 2, External hard disk partitions best not more than two, otherwise it will increase the time of retrieve the system to and waiting when you start external hard disk. The users using the Full Speed USB2.0 (formerly known as USB1.1) transmission interface should be taboo, or they will waste valuable time.
 3, If you use external hard disk box made of common materials, it is better not to have a long-term work inserted on your computer, external hard disk is used to temporary exchange or store data, not a local hard disk. Compared with built-in hard drive will be working in harsh conditions all the time, you should try to shorten the working hours. If it is necessary to dump downloaded data, the correct usage is to use the local hard disk to download and organize information, etc., and then copy to the external hard disk, rather than complete it in the external hard disk. External hard disk box can also operated as this method though it working better, after all, it is more secure.
 4, Do not defrag the external hard disk, it will be very easy to damage the hard disk. If you do need to tidy up, this method can be used: copy the entire partition data out, and then copy back.
