It all started with floppy disks which had little capacity but at that time were very useful. Rewritable cd’s and dvd’s came out later and were used to move data from one place to another. Nowadays we have many types of storage devices, from USB’s, SSD’s to remote hard drives that provide a huge amount of capacity and space to store files.

You got mp3 players that are used not only for playing music but for storing information too, you can put data on them trough an USB connection, and you can do the same with mp4 players and mobile phones.  There are differences in storage capacity and copying speed between specific devices,  and there is a difference in price of course as well.

Usually the price differs depending on how much capacity the device possesses. Devices come in different shapes and sizes and the main goal of providers is to make devices that are small in size and have a lot of free space on it.

You must be careful when using storage devices because you can get a virus from some other computer easily and you can infect other computer as well. That particular virus can be attached to some executable file on your storage device. Let’s take the USB storage device for example. You can plug in the USB device and the virus will automatically start to look for other files that are executables on that computer.

You can store files on your mp3 player that are not mp3 files, you can add images, movies and basically everything you want.  However, you will only be able to access those files if you plug in the mp3 player to a computer. That is in case your mp3 player doesn’t support other types of files, there are some that actually do support these types of files though.

Storage devices now have more space than before; you got drives that have one TB (1000 GB) of free space, and floppy discs for example had only about 14 MB of free space. You have external hard drives that offer the biggest amount of space in general and are suitable to be carried around. They are packed in a hard case that can be carried because it is safe that way, you just need to plug it in your USB port and to plug it in a hub to power it.

Storage devices can come in handy when traveling, when you don’t have access to the internet and need to give some data to somebody, when you need to take some data from friends, colleagues, etc.

Storage devices are not so expensive nowadays as people are constantly using them for fast file moving, copying and similar processes. If you need a storage device you should first see what you need, is it for your personal computer or for transport of data. Once you decide what you need you have a really big choice of designs and technical specifications of devices so you can choose what suits you best, you can than compare the prices and make the best deal possible for yourself.

If you are looking to buy a computer primarily for your web browsing needs, you should buy some plain configuration. It should have enough memory (RAM) and some middle category graphic card will be needed for opening some web content. The size of the hard drive is of your choice, if you plan to download big amounts of web content you should take hard drives with more storage space. You might also want to burn some multimedia on DVD’s, cd’s or blue ray discs. If you plan to do so you should take an appropriate device for that too. Which kind of motherboard you want is up to you, do make sure that it is compatible with your other components.

If you need a computer for gaming, you should look for a strong configuration to mach today’s gaming needs. Your graphic card should be a strong one with as much memory as it can have. RAM memory should be big too and it is best to fill all memory slots with big amounts of RAM memory.  You need a good processor, for today’s needs it should be at least a dual-core or even better quad-core processor. Your motherboard should support all these components too. Hard drive should have plenty of room, because installations of games can be really big and can consume a lot of space on the drive. For all of these you need one good cooler system and a power supply above 450 W, maybe even more.

If you are looking for a computer for office work, it should be reliable one, and if typing is all that is done it should just be one safe configuration with nice memory and nice CPU.

If you are planning on doing modeling, 3D animation or rendering you should get a really powerful machine. Your graphic card should be one of the best that is out on the market because new modeling and designing programs require it. RAM memory is one of the most important things both for modeling and really important for rendering because it speeds up the process. Your hard drive should be really big with a lot of storage. The advice is to buy more than one hard drive because you will need a lot of space to store your work files on your personal computer. You should take a good motherboard and some quad-core CPU or even something stronger than that. You should have enough coolers to keep the machine from boiling because these components can easily overheat and make some serious damage to other components or they can just cease to work. To support all these high tech components you will need a power supply with at least 800 W. It needs to charge every component plus coolers, and you should pay attention when buying your power supply.

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