The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
If it is an external hard drive, then the computer should be able to take it. However, if it is an internal hard drive, you will have to check the system requirements of your computer.
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
Some motherboards support boot from external USB drive amd/or eSATA. You need to check BIOS settings (the external drive should connected) to make sure that your computer is capable to do so. It the motherboard is capable then you can install operating system on the external drive (if it's an usb drive be ready for low performance).
Open My Computer and right-click on the drive icon. Then click "Properties."
---- # go to "my computer" # browse to your external hard drive # then open another "my computer" window # drag and drop the file(s) you want to the window displaying the external hard drive. ----
The external hard drive is a great way of backing up your data.
you can go to the service center of your external hard drive.
Click on My Computer, right click drive C, go down to properties, There you Go!
Some of the benefits of the Lacie External Hard Drive are that one can take the External Hard Drive to wherever one need it, also that these External Hard Drives are practical and easy to take since they are small.
You can find the device on your computer, go into it, and check if your files are there. If they are, it is backing up your stuff.