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Two test and maintenance utilities used on hard drives?
Check disc and defrag
Do you have to be on the Internet to defrag?
No! In fact, it's best that you're NOT online while doing a defrag. Anytime defrag hits a part of a hard drive where the information is changing, defrag restarts doing that portion of the drive. While on the Internet, your PC is constantly sending and receiving files and changing what's on the hard drive. Your defrag will take a lot longer.
What type of hard drives do Simpletech produce?
Simpletech produce portable external hard drives. These range from small USB sticks, to larger external hard drives. Simpletech also produces mini versions of the portable hard drives
Can you defrag your hard drives while still using your PC?
With Windows XP if any programs (even those running in the background) or the screensaver interrupts the defrag, it will restart/hang. In Vista, the defrag is designed to defrag at a certain schedule in low priorty in the background. In order to defrag and use the PC at the same time you need to use an automatic defragmenter like Diskeeper which runs in the background in invisitasking mode and defrags silently without conflicting with other programs.
Are there any towers that can hold over a dozen hard drives?
Some of the larger Asus towers can hold up to 10 hard drives if needed.
The majority of hard drives interface with the motherboard?
Modern hard drives connect to the hard drive using a SATA cable. Older ones use a larger, slower IDE cable.
What underlying cause prevented hard drives from becoming larger than 137 GB for some time?
Back when solid-state hard drives were first invented the initial cost was higher per GB or even MB on older hard drives. Now however new technology has enabled the cheaper building of flop circuits, making it a whole lot cheaper and therefore more ethical to build larger capacity hard drives.
What are the top four brands of 1 TB hard drives?
The top four brands of 1TB Hard Drives are amongst others Western Digital hard drives, Seagate hard drives, Toshiba hard drives, and Hitachi hard drives.
Do external hard drives fit in a pocket?
There are many portable external hard drives which would fit into most standard size pockets.
How can you increase your hard drive performance?
Do a Defrag. and a Disc clean-up
Where can someone buy an external hard drive backup?
External hard drives are available at all office, electronics and computer stores. The main choice to make is between compact units using notebook drives, and larger devices using desktop drives. The larger ones are cheaper and more reliable, but the compact ones are much more convenient.
Is 64 gb the most a flashdrive will hold?
Depends on the capacity of the drive. I have a 128Gb flash drive, which is obviously larger than 64Gb. You also get solid state (hard drives) which are essentially large flash drives which are larger than that
