Most computers have two internal connections for hard drives. You may also connect a third (external) hard drive via USB.
Yes, if you are speaking of the hard drives that you put into your computer. Your computer usually comes with one hard drive, but if you need another one, you can install another one you can buy at a computer store. Normally computers come with 2-3 extra hard drive slots in case you'd like to add more.
At the moment, there are at least 4 different kinds of hard drives IDE/EIDE/PATA (parallel ATA) all these are basically the same. SCSI SATA (serial ATA) SSD (solid state drive)
Some examples are hard drives, CD drives, DVD drives, flash drives, zip drives, and floppy drives
The physical size of a hard drive varies by the type of the computer it is placed in. Desktop hard drives are approximately 3.5" wide, and 1" high. Laptop drives are approximately 2.5" wide and 1/3" high. Capacity varies widely. In these modern size formats, you can typically find drives anywhere from 20 GB to 1.5 TB.
The largest hard drive that one can find for external hard drives on Toshiba's website is 3 terabytes. One can also find 3 terabyte internal hard drives on their website as well.
Its simple, if you look on back of computer tower near top there is a fan that is your power supply module. You need to remove the cover on the entire tower to gain access usually 4 to 8 screws and two plug and play type connecters, simply swap in the new one screw back in connect plug ins and your all done.
You need a XSATA Hookup/cable or an Xplorer 360 Hookup/cable.
When you partition a hard drive into two or more partitions (storage areas) those extra drives are called logical drives. So you can have 2 or 3 or more logical drives on one physical hard drive. It varies.
1.pata 2.sata 3.scsi
PS3 don't use special harddrives like Xbox 360 and instead use a standard notebook harddrive that can be purchased in most computer departments
ATA-3 introduced S.M.A.R.T.
yes you can and i know because i did it this will only work if your computer supports SATA drives 1. buy a vantec external hard drive 2. use the SATA plug that comes with it to plug it in 3. restart your computer to enter the setup 4. install onto your hard drive CAUTION make sure you dont overwrite your computer hard drive then your done you can then remove the HD from the case with a screwdriver and install it into your computer