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Data Storage Devices
Data storage devices are any piece of computer hardware used to record some sort of information. Questions about storage devices and the media on which they record information belong here.
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There is no better way to make a storage space more efficient than by installing some form of storage shelving. It is quite simple and inexpensive to install shelves in a storage area or closet space. As long as you are familiar with using a power drill and skill saw, you should have no trouble at all installing shelves to any particular area. Purchase a few pieces of lumber, L-brackets for support, and screws and you will have all of the supplies that you need. Just remember to take measurements and come up with a rough sketch of the project before you get started.
If you need additional storage capacity, external hard drives are an excellent way to go. The key is deciding whether you really need the additional storage, and if so, how much. Other storage media, such as CDs and DVDs, are easy and readily available if you only have limited backing-up to do, but for larger jobs, external hard drives do a great job. On the other hand, if you're looking for more space for applications, you may want to look into replacing your internal hard drive with a larger one, or perhaps adding an additional internal hard drive. Good luck.
How full should you let your hard drive get?
You should allow at least 10% free drive space, for proper functioning of the computer.
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What are Hard Drive Configuration?
Hard Drive configuration is used to define the Slave and master Hard Drive.
When we are attaching more than one hard drive the configuration is used.
Configuration is done by jumper setting which is available in back side of hard drive...1st two pins for master hard drive and last pins are slave..
What does the x factor of a CD drive indicate?
The speed for the drive to write to a disc.
A drive with a 1x speed will take 60 minutes to burn a 60 minute disk.
A drive with a 10x speed will take 6 minutes to burn a 60 minute disk.
etc. etc.
What is the largest IDE hard drive for Intel D875PBZ motherboard?
The D875PBZ is fully LBA48 compliant, and supports both PATA and SATA drives. You can use the largest size hard drive available for either connection (probably 750 GB for PATA, 1.5 TB for SATA).
What computer component stores settings about devices such as hard drives?
That would be the BIOS chip it finds all of your hardware.
Sneaker is the term for mass storage device that can be easily concealed. Common examples includes cell phomes, USB sticks, PDAs, digital cameras, web cams, digital voice recorders, smart cards and magnetic strip burners.
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What are facts about primary storage devices?
- Computers and servers all have a hard drive of some capacity and speed.
- Some camcorders and VHS machines make use of hard drive technology for the storage of data.
- Even calculators and cash registers can have a hard drive to store relatively permanent information that can be retrieved, changed, and stored again on the drive.
- Hard drives are used to store information and programs on computers, servers, camcorders, etc. even when the power is off.
- Hard drives each have their own capacity for storing digital data and a speed at which that data can be retrieved and stored. As technology has progressed, the size and speed of hard drives and their processors has increased exponentially.
- The size and speed of the hard drive in a system is directly proportional to the efficient working of that system. A larger hard drive with a faster processing speed will work more efficiently than a smaller, slower hard drive.
- Hard drives are infinitely re-writable with no residual "damage" to the hard disk itself, but it is possible, with the right technology to reconstruct information on a hard drive that has been wiped clean or over-written.
- Because of their reliance on magnetism to maintain and store information, static electricity can wipe out stored information. Magnets, when placed on or near a computer terminal, can also erase data that is stored on a hard drive.
- Because information stored on a hard drive is stored magnetically, all data on a drive can be rearranged, changed, and stored again with no damage to the disk itself. Information on the disk can be moved around without loss of data or disruption in efficiency of the system.
- Computers can also be attached to external hard drives for backup storage. Exernal hard drives can be attached to a system, interface with it, and then be removed and stored on ste or in another location for safety.
Early electronic computers, developed around the 1940's, were the size of a large room and consumed huge amounts of electricity. They were vastly different to the modern computers we use today, especially when compared to small and portable laptop computers.
Computers are programmed to carry out instructions. These instructions are usually very simple and require adding numbers together, moving data from one place to another etc.
A computer program can include as little as a few instructions to upwards of millions of instructions depending on the complexity of the program. Modern applications such as word processors, web browsers and graphic editors take large teams of programmers a long time to complete.
A computer's memory stores numbers in huge amounts of cells that are addressed and can be quickly accessed by the CPU to perform calculations. There are two main types of computer memory, ROM (read only memory) and RAM (random access memory). ROM contains pre-written software and data that the CPU can only read, while RAM can be accessed and written to at any time.
Computers interact with a number of different I/O (input/output) devices to exchange information. These peripheral devices include the keyboard, mouse, display, hard drive, printer and more.
Computers are used to help link the world in the form of networks. Networked computers allow users to share and exchange data that is stored in different locations. You may have heard of a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) which connects areas of various sizes. The Internet is a vast network of computers spanning the globe that allows users to access email, the World Wide Web and other applications.
Although we normally think of computers as the ones we use in our everyday lives to surf the web, write documents etc, small computers are also embedded into other things such as mobile phones, toys, microwaves and MP3 players. We use computers all the time, often without even knowing it!
Can files saved onto floppy disk only be accessed by other users without the disk?
Short answer to this. No, the data can't magically jump from one computer to another (providing the computer's aren't networked. If they were however, it would be unlikely the files would be stored on floppy)
short answer: no, not normally. long answer: maybe. if the file has a backup copy written on the harddrive somewhere, and someone knows where to look, then, yes.
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The files cannot be accessed unless they are stored somewhere else on the system or they are in temporary files. in short; no.
NO.
In fact, your question has a false answer. Files saved onto a floppy disk cannot be accessed from the disk unless the user uses the disk in the computer. The only way to access the same files without a disk is to have a backup on another disk, hard drive, or other medium.
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The floppy drive will not work. Occasionally, an improperly installed cable will damage the drive electronics, but more often, the light on the front of the drive will stay on constantly, to indicate that something is wrong.
Can you replace the disk drive on an ensoniq asrx pro?
If you go to chickensys dot com they have a zip drive kit that you can install for $99. I have not been able to find a regular floppy drive tho.
What are the organization that use the magnetic disk as secondary storage device?
Um, your question doesn;t make much sense.. Secondary storage in normally considered your computers hard drive, a flash drive, floppy disc and the like. Things that don't lose data when turned off. Primary storage (like system memory)is accessed directly by your CPU, secondary storage is normally accessed through some soft or I/O device.
