What are the advantages of a hard disk drive?

Answer 1

Although many times slower than system memory (RAM), hard-drives provide extremely large storage capacity and are cheaper to produce (byte for byte). Also, RAM requires electrical power to maintain state (volatile memory) whereas hard-drives will maintain state without any power (non-volatile memory); we only require power to change the state.

Answer 2

Having two hard drives comes with a variety of advantages. Mainly, with more hard drive space comes more storage. Having two hard drives allows a computer user to store twice the amount of information.

Answer 3

The advantages of hard disk are the following:

1. It has a large storage capacity.

2. Stores and retrieves data much faster that a floppy disk or CDs.

3. Data and Files are not lost when you turn the computer off.

4.Cheap compare to other storage media.

5. Easily replaced and upgraded.

Answer 4

The advantages of having more hard drive storage is that one can for example download more movies, download more Video Games, save more pictures while not running into trouble. More drive storage can however slow your computer down and increase the time of a virus scan.

Answer 5

We can be storing many videos with or with no sound even if sound files wil be taking far larger spaces.

We can be installing the games and it will be having many sounds and they might be at the starting, pressing the playing button, after pressing the playing button and on the screen, on collecing powerups including mushrooms, plants, balls or coins. The effect for touching the monsters also will be producing the sound

Answer 6

Advantages of a Hard DiskKeeps all your information stored, which is not lost when the computer is switched off.

Answer 7

having BIGGER Hard Drive means you can store more porn on it

Answer 8

(a) Extra storage space.... for your files and programs

(b) Speed up your computer... by using the extra hard-drive space as 'virtual' memory

Answer 9

you can store data on it