| For those who are not familiar with their PC working | | | | SATA drives provides higher speed than USB hard |
| they don't know what is the difference between | | | | drives. |
| SATA and USB hard drive. They consider it as the | | | | Location: |
| same. But I must tell them that there is a lot of | | | | SATA is situated inside of your PC while USB is an |
| differences between these two... | | | | external device. |
| First of all, we should know in brief what are these | | | | Movable: |
| two. | | | | SATA cannot be removed from your PC and taken |
| SATA hard drive | | | | to anywhere while you can take USB to anywhere |
| SATA or you can say Serial Advanced Technology | | | | you want. |
| Attachment, is a single cable which is used to | | | | If you are going to market to purchase an external |
| connect 2 devices from point to point. It is a | | | | hard drive which is better, stronger, faster than I will |
| storage-interface for connecting host bus adapters | | | | suggest you to purchase Seagate 1 TB USB 2.0. why |
| to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and | | | | I am suggesting this one to you is because of the |
| optical drives. This cable helps in transferring data | | | | following features: |
| from your local PC to hard disk or CD ROM devices. | | | | 1) Easy to use and set up: this drive is very easy to |
| The main advantage of using this cable is this that | | | | use. What you had to do is just plug it in computer |
| the transfer speed of the cable starts from 150 | | | | and start working on it. This doesn't involve any |
| MBPS, which is a huge one. SATA are very thinner | | | | installation of software to make it work. |
| serial cables which facilitate more efficient airflow | | | | 2)Technical body: The drive is been designed sleek |
| inside a form factor and also allow for smaller chassis | | | | and portable. All painted with black color this drive |
| designs. | | | | provides you the capacity of 1 TB with USB 2.0 |
| USB hard drive | | | | interface which store more and more movies, music, |
| USB drives are those drives which connects external | | | | photos etc. This disk provides the 7200 rpm speed |
| storage devices to your PC. USB means Universal | | | | to retrieve the data from the drive. |
| Serial Bus which provides you 1.1 or 2.0 user | | | | 3) Compatibility: This can easily be recognized by |
| interfaces. USB drives has the same work as of | | | | Windows Vista and Windows XP, you can simply |
| floppy drives. But the USB are smaller, faster and a | | | | drag and drop your files in the disk to copy. |
| thousand times storage capacity than floppy drives. | | | | 4) Energy efficient: The one of the good feature of |
| These are portable, sleek and having compact design | | | | this disk is this that it is a very less power consumer. |
| which makes them easy to store. | | | | It can perform its work to the full extent with a |
| Speed: | | | | very low burden on your electricity bill. |