Hard Disk Drives

I assume you mean floppy disk. Hard disks (hard-drives) are designed to be connected and not usually removable without opening the case.

if you are referring to a Zip drives' hard-disk then no - not usually - unless it is required by an application or as a security measure.

You can install the hard drive and a cd/cvd disc drive on the same IDE channel,

just set jumpers to HDD=Master & optical drive to slave.or if your system supports cable select, set both jumpers to this setting.This solution is usefull if one of your IDE channels has "blown"

3 1/2 inch

5 1/4 inch

8 inch

On a flash drive, one billion bytes is called a(n) _____________.

There are some software pre-installed in the chipsets of the hard disk drive (HDD) but nothing on the disk itself. Those pre-installed software instructs the HDD how to write/erase information on the magnetized disks.

A "Full Backup".

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is a tape drive.

a microfilm is an example of bothboth a hard copy and soft copy device. This is due to the fact that it is temporary output and can be read read visually also as it is a printed copy of computer output

Well the hard drive stores all your personal data and system data, without a hard drive to boot your operating system from all your left with is a glorified side table.

Read this below for more info:

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/hard-drive-basics.htm

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/jargon/hard_disk.htm

swap chip

Any data that needs to be stored for temporary or permanent use, is saved onto the platters of the computer's internal hard drive, or on an external hard drive/flash drive.

Tape remains a viable alternative to disk in some situations due to its lower cost per bit. This is a large advantage when dealing with large amounts of data. Though the areal density of tape is lower than for disk drives, the available surface area on a tape is far greater. The highest capacity tape media are generally on the same order as the largest available disk drives (about 5 TB in 2011). Tape has historically offered enough advantage in cost over disk storage to make it a viable product, particularly for backup, where media removability is necessary.

Yes, but they are slightly larger (for now) than the "thumb drive" versions.

As of 2011, the price for large-scale flash drives has continued to come down. Some 256Gb drives fell to less than $700 USD, and modifications can be made to existing drives to allow 1 terabyte of data storage. The price for an actual 1 Tb drive (solid-state drive) was still in the $3000 USD range in early 2011.

Some examples of internal peripheral devices are cd/dvd drives, internal modems, and e-card readers.

A hard disk drive (often shortened as hard disk, hard drive, or HDD) is a non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating rigid (i.e. hard) platters with magnetic surfaces. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Drive <--- :D

A single MBR-Style disk can contain a maximum of four primary partitions.

You only really need to defragment when the performance of the computer is noticeably affected. Depending on your usage of the computer, this can be anywhere from every couple of days to a few weeks. Doing so more frequently does not hurt however, and it may make future defragmention sessions less time-consuming.

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.