You can maintain the hard drive by defragmenting it with built in windows programs. I don't know haw to do it on a mac. Theres not much alse you can do but not putting unessary data will keep it faster.
Defragment of your hard drive on a monthly basis is one way of maintaining the hard drive.
The HDD, or hard disc drive is one example of a drive that does not require power to hold its stored data.
A computer hard disk drive (HDD) is a non-volatile data storage device. Non-volatile refers to storage devices that maintain stored data when turned off
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
* Hard disk drive * Hard drive * HDD
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.
It is the same as a laptop hard drive
No. IDE Hard Drive cannot be replaced with a Sata Hard Drive because the connectors are different. example. if you have sata hard drive installed on your machine. and you purchase IDE Hard drive. you won't be able to install the IDE hard drive where the Sata hard drive was because the IDE connectors are a different shape and size towards the Sata hard drive connectors.
To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.
Hard Disk 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.