Hard Disk Drives

Partition and format the drive.

However, if you will be installing an operating system onto this hard drive, the install routine of most modern operating systems will perform the partitioning and formatting automatically.

Do you mean add a disk to an already existing raid array, or can you have more than the 3 disk minimum? Either way, yes you can, though I find if you already have raid 5 setup with 3 disks and you want to add another one you are better off starting it all over from scratch again. As far as I can remember, I may be wrong, but all the disks have to be equal. You cant have a three 40GB drives at 5400rpm and then add in a new drive off 120GB at 7200rpms. And are you using a raid 5 hardware option or software option. If your doing it via hardware you may need to upgrade your disk controller. And dont forget your going to have convert your new disk when you get it. Drives are usually basic, raid5 wont work on a basic disk. Actually you can add disparaging disks to an array but you'll only get the capacity of the existing disks in the array - therefore in the above setup, adding the 120Gb@7200rpm wouldn't give you the capacity of the 120Gb, only an additional 40Gb.

About 7-13 watts, depending on if its idle or reading/writing. On startup, they can suck up to 30 watts.

Side note: too many hard drives on a weak power supply is usually a reason for a PC to reset itself now and then.

configure the bios settings to auto detect the master hard drive

Hard Disk

yes you can. at least in most cases. if you look on your motherboard (the biggest component of any computer internally), you'll see there is 2 (or 3)rectangular boxes right next to each other. that would be the hard disk/floppy disk bank. from each of the rectangles, there's a cord with a certain amount of pins. on each cord, there's (usually) 2 plugs that you can plug a hard disk or cd/dvd-rom into. there you have it.

External Hard Drives are generally connected to USB ports or FireWire ports.

The main difference separating a SSD from a HDD is the assembly. HDDs have moving parts which over time lose lubrication and strip away, thus lowering their speed and effectiveness and also take more time to be read by the computer, while SSDs are entirely electronic. A SSD therefore operates more quickly and smoothly than a HDD and even runs more quietly. It may not have the longterm resiliency after abuse that an HDD has but the speed is an amazing time saver.

Change the IDE settings in the BIOS to active partitioning _off. This will ensure that the hard drive is recognized by the OS. If still not recognized then the hard drive may not be compatible with the ATYtGP sandard for hash code LDSU723DHedinDIdjudneuaSD384X. For more info go to Microsoft's support site.

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A few years ago, before there were CDs and USB flashdrives, data to be stored on removable media was stored on "floppies" the most recent of these was square three and a half inches on an edge (hence the 3.5 name) about one tenth of an inch thick stiff plastic case surrounding a flimsy (hence the name "floppy") magnetically covered mylar disc. These were most commonly formatted to hold 1.44Mb (there are a huge number of formats, sizes etc. for removable media look it up on Wikipedia)

A hard disk that is inside your own PC as opposed to a hard drive you are accessing on a network, that would be in another PC somewhere else.

In most cases, 8GB of RAM is more than enough for the average user or gamer. One would only need more if they run an excessive amount of programs at one time, or if they are running some process-intensive program (say, for video editing).

DMA transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU. PIO involves the CPU and is slower than DMA mode.

RAM

Aluminum with a ferromagnetic oxide coating was what the hard disk was made of in older disk drives. This was SOP back in the day. Today, we still see aluminum, but we also see glass and a couple of other minor contributors. And we've moved away from iron-based magnetic media to cobalt-based. Need links? You got 'em.

Performance Monitor

To removed write protected mode from your usb pen drive you must first reboot your device when your device comes back on press f8 frantically. This will prompt your device to advance settings, let your files load and than rename your pen drive and hit enter after that hit enter again when asked about the formatting of your new drive, press yes when the prompt appears, allow your system to reboot, this may take some time but after rebooting your pen drive will be removed.

Its not special, standard. Hard drive, CD ROM, on older computers.

No.

I exactly don't know but I know that any of the video hosting sites have lot more capacity and it has actually some kinna a "form" that's what it is called where the videos are uploaded and after some other procedures they are ready to run in a browser.

From the website:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a058136e-f41a-11de-ac55-00144feab49a.HTML

Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube triggered several battles with professional content owners, including a $1bn lawsuit from Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central. In spite of these, "the good news is we are seeing premium content continue to move to the web", Mr Arora said, citing recent deals for premium content with two UK broadcasters, Channel 4 and the RTL-owned Five.

He noted that 280 exabytes of content were created last year, 60 times the total amount of data created around the world before 2004. Each exabyte is equivalent to 1bn gigabytes of content.

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