Hard Disk Drives

Yes. there is a small amount of gold in pretty every silicon chip. Tiny gold wires connect the silicon chips to the connector pins on the chip's packaging. The connectors are often gold plated too. There are many chips on a hard drive controller pcb.

A variety of sources can provide information about what to look for in a hard drive when shopping for a computer. For direct contact with a sales person, chain electronics stores, such as Best Buy, will be of help.

Answer: In computer terms HDD usually means Hard Disk Drive or High Density Diskette. The GB stands for gigabyte. So the 160 is meaning 160 gigabytes of space on the computer. * One gigabyte can hold over 1000 novels (uncompressed at 100,000 words per novel). * One gigabyte is roughly equal to 17 hours of MP3 music at 128 kbit/s (1,0003 / 128 / 1000 * 8 / 3600 = 17.36). * One gigabyte is roughly equivalent to 12 hours of Flash Video (at 450x370). If you wish to store pictures and media files, go for the highest GB's when purchasing a new computer.

You can't, not easily. The partitions (D and C) are set up permanently. In order to change them, you would have to completely erase the hard drive and start over.

Its is possible by using partation magic

it would be able to hold 150000 songs

You did have to install Dimms in pairs for older computers which used RDRAMs, but computers nowadys use SDRAMs. So, you can mix combination of RAMs of different sizes and speeds without any problem.

No, you will not have to remove an external hard disk each time you turn your laptop off.

The entire point of a hard disk is that nothing happens to your data when it's turned off. Data is stored by magnetizing tiny areas of the surface of the disk. They don't need electricity to stay magnetized.

I'm not sure I understand why you're asking this question. Contiguous files are simply files that are not broken up in pieces. As you disk fills up, when you delete files to make more room, the free space is scattered all over the disk. If you download a large file, or install software, there may not be enough room in any single place on the disk to fit the entire file. Windows puts chunks of the file in several places to make it fit. This can slow down the time it takes to load the file. When you defrag the disk, it attempts to make as many files contiguous as possible. Deleting contiguous files should be exactly the same procedure as with any other file. However, some files that the system uses must be contiguous. They can't be deleted because they are in use by the system. If you have any questions, please email me or check out my profile.

A Jazz Disk can hold either 1 orr 2 GB depending on the indivual disk

You can use an ohmmeter to test the continuity of all wires.

Alternately, you can put it in place of a known working cross-over cable and see if the network connection still functions.

Remember that many modern network devices detect whether the cable is straight or cross-over, so perhaps you don't even need a cross-over.

Depending on your hard drive. If it's a new external hard drive you should check to see if it's preformatted for your computer. For example I just bought a new LaCie drive for my Mac Powerbook. It already comes preformatted in HFS mode so I didn't have to do anything. Other external hard drives allow you to put files in a hard drive without formatting, but this can cause problems later on down the road. Some Mac who have Seagate external hard drives have reported a clicking noise and malfunctioning. I personally have had this experience as I was sharing it with a PC (Seagate doesn't recommend this). It wasn't formatted thus I couldn't put some simple stuff on the hard drive such as folders with folder icons! To format any hard drive, connect your hard drive to you Mac. Then open the disk utilities application that can be found in the utilities folder in the application folder. Select the hard drive you want to format. To find out the rest, google it. haha. I kind of forget what which button to push, but it's fairly simple. I would recommend getting specific drives for PC and Mac. You can never be too safe when backing up your information. So far my LaCie works great and is quieter than my Seagate.

Depending on how big your hard drive is. You can go to "My computer" on your laptop or PC and then right click and go to properties and then a screen will pop up and it will tell you how many bytes it has. :)

from a true gamers perspective, it is my humble opinion that one drive is best. like a chain, a computer is only as fast as its slowest part. and rarely do I feel that the hardrive access time is the "bottleneck". if you have a slow video card then you will see it in the games...does having two harddrives make games run faster? possibly yes. but the difference is not huge. load times will tighten I suppose and if your dead set on extreme gaming performance then you may want a "RAID array hardware setup. which for the most part is TWO harddrives working together. it is faster, more advanced, more complicated and more expensive than just one hardrive. however if your just looking for a solid machine for games. money is better spent on a midrange hardrive and high quality videocard or processor perhaps.

so the short answer: two hardives can be setup to be faster than one and (money aside) will inevitably aid most tasks done by your computer including gaming.

disk scanner

A hard drive becomes fragmented when a file that occupies a finite storage location on the hard drive is modified and becomes larger. If the finite storage space on the drive is not large enough to store the larger modified file, part of the file must be stored in another location that is not contiguous to the original storage location. Thus the file becomes fragmented. Now your computer must search for the file in two different locations in order to retrieve it. This is what causes your computer to slooow down.

This is called "Formatting"

Usually, the hard drive connects to the motherboard.

The A: and B: drives on a desktop computer are reserved in the BIOS for floppy disk drives. As most computers only come with one floppy disk drive only the A: drive will be visible in file explorer. If a second floppy disk drive is fitted then both A: and B: drives will be visible. Computers used to have a B: drive. It was the second floppy drive. Since people no longer copy from one floppy to another, the B: drive (and on some newer models the A: drive) has become obsolete.

firewire and usb

ram is primary storage