Are you a film buff or are you a person who can not stay without music? Are you in the habit of collecting media? Then you should look for some media storage immediately so that you can have the favorite films or music handy.
There are different varieties of media storage devices available in the market.
The most popular among them are CDs or compact discs that hold from around 150 Mega bytes to 630 megabytes of data, music or cinema.
Easy to use, these media storage devices have only one problem.
If these CDs are damaged, the data in them are lost.
So it is needed to store them safely, preferably in storage cases.
DVDs are also a common form of media storage devices which can hold greater amount of data.
A normal DVD can store around 4.
37 Gigabytes of data while the advanced blue ray discs can store around 9 Gigabytes of data.
Again the DVDs are susceptible to damages like scratches and there by be a loss of the total data if such thing happens.
A point to be noted that a DVD can give much better clarity and sound quality for movies and sound files compared to CDs.
Nowadays, flash drives have taken over CDs and DVDs because they can be carried in pockets like a pen.
Generally called pen drives, these media storage devices can hold data from around 256 mega bytes to around 80 Gigabytes and you can travel with around 50 movies or more than 5000 songs in your pocket.
These are plug and play devices and the most easy to use.
Only susceptible to computer virus, these flash drives are getting more and more popular day by day.
If you want to have a back up of all you data in your PC or store all your movies into one place, the media storage device you are looking for is an external hard disc drive.
These drives can be connected to your PC via a data cable and needs a constant power supply.
You can store Terabytes of data in these discs which might amount to around 100s of movies or innumerable songs.
These hard disc drives are generally used by professionals in cinema editing set up but nowadays movie freaks are using these discs to store their own collection.
Another handy thing about these hard disc drives is that these are portable.
Yes, they are a bit bulky for sure but can always be carried along with you.
A user friendly plug and play media storage device in form of external hard disc drive has recently come up in the market.
These are lager versions of the flash drives and does not need any alternate power supply.
These are the latest fad in the market and all the music and movie collators are going after these media storage devices.
Easy to use, these hard disc drives even come in pocket sizes and are extremely easy to carry.
You can store up to around 1 Terabytes of media data in these hard disc drives.
With numerous media storage devices in market, you have to choose which one serves you best.
If your need is less, you can always go for a flash drive while you have loads of data to be stored away, a hard disc drive is the thing you need.