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I mainly use my computer for multimedia purposes, what type of hard drive is best for me?
Speed and size are the best friends of multimedia. You will want a 7200 rpm hard drive and the largest size (GBs) drive you can afford. If you want an external drive and have a FireWire connection on your computer, that is much more preferrable than USB due to its speed.
What is considered a fast hard drive?
Fast speeds on a hard drive are important if the drive is going to used for gaming. The average speed of a hard is around 7500 rpms. If it is being used for gaming, a faster hard drive with speeds of upto 10000 rpms should be used.
What you should never do to your hard drive?
You should NEVER unplug your hard drive with your computer still powered on. It will destroy the drive.
Building gaming computer what is best hard drive tb or less?
Terabytes are good for multimedia storage. For gaming, you should get a solid state drive or high performance drive like a Western Digital Velociraptor 300 gb hard drive with incredible speeds and durability. These hard drives protect bytes from data corruption and allow fast access during gaming, which prevents the game from freezing, crashing, or chopping.
Which type of dvd drive works most like a removable hard drive?
Study Unit: Multimedia CD & DvD Drives. Page 64 DVD-RAM
Can you touch a hard drive?
You should only touch the outside of a hard drive. The parts of the hard drive you should not touch are inside. The hard drive is sealed and if you break the seal, you void any warranties and risk any data you have inside.
What does the hard-drive do?
The hard drive is the main memory where most documents and multimedia files are stored, for example music, images and video's. Not only are these files stored on the Hard Drive but also the Operating System is kept on the Hard Drive. A computer can have more than one Hard Drive and these can either be Internal or External. Disk drives (HDD) come in many different sizes in memory; ranging from Kilo-Bite as the smallest and Terabyte as the largest.
How much RAM and Hard drive is needed to do standard multimedia processes like pictures, movies, and music?
1GB ram and 1oGB drive is a good combo for most aplications like that.
You should perform regular backups of the hard drive at least?
You should perform regular backups of a hard drive at least weekly.
How often should you delete temp files to free up hard drive space?
On average, once every 2 weeks.
If you have an existing hard drive and want to install a second hard drive and you want to keep the first drive bootable as the bootable drive how should you configure the second hard drive?
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
If a hard drive and DVD drive are connected to the ide port with the same cable should the hard drive be on the end connector?
The hard drive should be on the bottom connector and all you other drives on the top connectors. Thats how mines connected!!!!!!!! :-)
