Hard Drives


  • Configuring the Internal Drives ... Step 11 of 21
    Before configuring you must decide what type of drives and how many you want in your system. Unless you plan on using your PC for more involved applications such as networking then one drive should be sufficient. In fact with today’s drive sizes like the LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive coming in at 500 GB one drive likely has more storage then you’ll likely ever need. Then you will need to decide how to configure them to make them all work together. Read More...
  • All You Need to Know About Tape Drives
    Tape drives are useful backups to store data. The faster variety can transfer 20MB per second. Other tape drives can accommodate kilobytes and gigabytes in the hundreds. These kinds of media, however, are sequential-access devices, meaning you have to read through previous data before you can get to the latest input. You need to rewind data, and this takes time. The search time may be slow but streaming data into tape drives is real fast. Read More...
  • External Hard Drive Cases - Theyre Just as Important as Your Computer Hard Drive
    Developments in computer technology have allowed people to do more. However, with the ability to do more came as well the need for more storage and the importance of backing up files. That's where external hard drives come in. The importance of having an external hard drive External hard drives are not actually new in the computer industry. They've been available for a long time and over time, have also experienced their own advancements. Wher Read More...
  • External Hard Drives
    The trend with technology seems to be going small and mobile. You would probably think that is where the manufacturers got the idea of making external hard drives. These are hard disk drives (HDD) that are literally placed outside of the computer case. An external HDD does not only give you more space, but it provides you with mobility. With the option to remove this HDD, you are able to take all your data with you. There are external HDD that a Read More...
  • Hybrid Hard Drives
    Although flash based hard drives are becoming more popular, they still don't have the same value for money that current hard drives achieve. For same price as a 32 GB non-volatile flash disk you can get a whopping 750 GB hard drive. For the meantime you can take advantage of a combination of these two technologies. Hybrid hard drives, or H-HDD combine these two technologies to offer an increase in performance as well as an improvement in power c Read More...