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If You Own a Digital Camera Or Video - You Need a External Hard Drive

Don't you love digital cameras? How about those new easy to use video cameras with High Definition? All of these are pretty cool items but they have one thing in common. What do you do with all the digital images and Digital Video you now have?

Remember those old kinds of cameras where you had to buy film? You took it down to your local drug store and had it processed. You picked up the negatives and prints. Then you had to buy a photo album to put the prints in. You may have done away with the film, negatives and photo albums to some degree but you are still stuck coming up with a way to store all these memories.

Fortunately, our computer hard drives are getting bigger all the time. Unfortunately, not everyone has a new hard drive that has lots of storage. Have not fear, there are alternative devices to add to your current computer storage without having to replace the computer or the existing hard drive.

External hard drives have come to the rescue. They are so easy to use. Most of them use a fast USB 2.0 connection from the external hard drive to your PC. We aren't talking about those cute little USB flash drives but actual hard drives. The geeks have even got it right by designing cases that are appealing to the eye. Some even go by the name of My Book and come in different colors. You can set up once of these external drives and not have to hide it because of its looks.

Many of the manufacturers have drives that now offer over 1 terabyte of storage. That is a ton of photos. You can also use the external backup drive to do just that. Created a copy of your current hard drive and still have room to spare.

Some of the digital 1TB ultra slim drives run off the power from the USB but more than likely you will find they need an external power source. You just plug it into the wall. Plug the USB chord into your PC and it should recognize the hard drive. Most of the external drives will come with a CD that has the necessary drivers for the appropriate operating systems. Whether you use Windows or Macs, you can use these hard drives.

The cost of these hard drives have dropped considerably. I can remember what seems like a long time ago get my first PC with a 30 megabyte hard drive. Everyone told me, I would never need more than that. A 30 megabyte hard drive will not even hold the operating systems of today. The cost of the hard drives and memories back then were pretty expensive while today I could purchase a 1 terabyte external hard drive for around $300. Every year, the cost of memory keeps going down.

If you own a digital camera or video camera, you can easily afford to add the necessary memory to your PC to store all those memories. Years from now, you will be able to browse through your collection and relive those precious moments in time.

About the Author

Jerbob Johnsen owns the
"Cheap Backup Drives"
a website dedicated to all sizes of external hard drives. If you are need a bargain on a hard drive, visit http://www.cheapbackupdrives.com and browse through our huge inventory. You will find what you need to store those precious memories.

Does anyone know where I can find a new usb cable for my Casio Exilim EXZ75 digital camera?

I recently lost the usb cable for my Casio Exilim EXZ75 digital camera. Someone told me to get a card reader. Does a card reader work the same way? Which is better an usb cable or card reader?

The USB cable applicable to your camera is proprietary. You can search the internet to find it, but contacting Casio is the easiest. Expect to pay $40+ for a new cable.

Even better, just grab a card reader. It does almost everything. In terms of transferring photos, it works better (they're faster). If you want the advanced software upgrade features, or want to download images from the internal memory then you will need the cable. Note that software updates are not recommended to be taken on my novices and internal memory images can be copied to a Memory Card in the camera.

Where to find a card reader? Well your computer might already have it. HP/Compaq has had them for a while on many models. If your computer has it, it will be on the front of your computer and one will be markes SD.

If your computer doesn't have it, buy one. They start at around $15 at local stores and can be as low as $2 on http://dealextreme.com (expect to wait 4-6weeks for shipping and questionable quality). You want an SD card reader, but a multi-reader can't hurt. It'll plug into any USB port.

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