Hard Disk Drives

DISH NETWORK AND DIRECTV are working on that option for their DVRs. DISH NETWORK's option allows the use of a standard external USB drive, but it formats in a propietary format so it cannot be moved from one DVR to another. Thank you RIAA and MPAA for that wonderful option!

DISH NETWORK currently has a series of DISHPlayers that video can be downloaded through the USB port on the DVR to the DISHPlayer personal video player

There are multiple legal ways of defining bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, etc.

A standard kilobyte (KB) is defined as 1024 bytes. But drive manufacturers use the more 'lean' definition of kilobyte, which is a very strict 1000 bytes, as opposed to 1024 bytes.

After all, if you buy a 500Gb drive, and it actually had say 525Gb's on it, you'd be happy, not confused!

But no, they chose to go the opposite route, which, just my 'mere coincidence', happens to allow them to legally market undersized drives as judged by the standard definition of a KB.

IMO, it's all about the money, as it always is.

At this point in time, drives are essentially available in 500GB chunks. If you're uncertain as to whether one size will be enough, then you simply bump it up to the next notch and you're more than covered.

The other thing the article mentions is that formating a drive also reduces it's available storage space, so even if manufacturers used a 1024KB, you'd might still see a reduced available size because of the formating.

When its hooked up and operating properly, your external hard drive should show up as a drive letter under "my computer" just like your internal drive. You can save to it just as you would an internal drive.

If the drive is not showing up as i just described, it may not be partitioned and formatted. You can investigate this by going into control panel > administrative tools > computer management and clicking on disk management in the left pane. Once you've done this, the lower-right pane will show all your hard disks, scroll through and, if you find your external hard disk in there listed as "unallocated" you can partition and format it by right-clicking on it and choosing the appropriate dialog options.

NOTE: be very careful when messing around with disk management, one of the disks in that list will be your primary hard disk and erasing THAT will destroy your operating system. Be sure you are formatting the right disk.

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Memory modules are used for adding RAM to a computer motherboard. As a standard computer industry practice the motherboard manufacturers do not add RAM to motherboards but provide slots (empty sockets) to which memory modules can be added as per computer configuration needs of the end user. Semiconductor RAM which is manufactured as standard chips is assembled on printed circuit boards as memory modules of different capacities (e.g 512MB , 1GB or 2GB). Examples include SIMM, DIMM, SODIMM. These module printed circuit board size, shape and signals are standard as defined for various memory types e.g. 200pin laptop DDR2 SODIMM is a common laptop memory type these days. Since there are standard modules for all type of computers, for a specific computer type you can just buy memory module and add RAM to the computer.

To write-protect (stop deletion, overwriting, or adding to) a 3 1/4" floppy disk, slide the tiny plastic tab at the back of the disk (opposite the shutter), so that it is open.

To protect a disk from damage, keep it in a dry, temperature-controlled environment free of dust and smoke. Avoid any contact with strong magnetic field (sudh as on top of stereo speakers).

You can use compression, but it can also affect the performance of the disk.

BIOS will notify that it couldn't locate a bootable drive. But you can get other related messages as well.

Desktops have expansion ports (PCI ports) where you can add new cards such as sound cards or network cards. Laptops often only have a single bay for this purpose.

Desktops tend to have better performance because they don't have to run on batteries. That means the processors and video card can be designed to use more power and can take up more space. Hard drives are similarly faster and have higher capacity (in general).

In general, its is much cheaper to build a high performance desktop PC than it is to build a high performance laptop due to the power, size, and heat constraints that a laptop has.

To hold the operating system files, operating system, save data, all the information in your computer will be saved on the hard drive.

The hard drive keeps all the data even when there is no power. It will stay forever until changed or removed by the computer.

Hard drives use a spinning magnetic disc and magnetically recorded and read from, using a swinging arm with a minute read/write head on it.

Called a hard drive to distinguish it from early magnetic discs, which were made of plastic film and called 'Floppy discs', because they were floppy (but held inside a rigid platic cover.)

Thats why you need to destroy your hard disk drive before disposal of your computer. Make sure the disposal is in a special place for electric stuff.

The data will survive, even when the hard drive is removed. It can be plugged into another computer and read.

As a rule of thumb, I'd deduct at least 50% depreciation per year. It's actual worth is dependent upon how old it is, what condition it is in, and how many hours it has actually been in use. Hard-drive manufacturers typically provide an MTTF (mean time to failure) expressed in hours. This is the average number of hours of continual use you can expect to get from a hard-drive before it is expected to fail. It is not an exact science, it is merely a guide figure, however, the closer a drive gets to its MTTF the less worth it has. Personally, I treat all second-hand drives with suspicion as it's hard to tell its true condition just by looking at it. You need to install it, inspect the SMART (self-monitoring and reporting tool) information, possibly reconfigure its geometry and soak test it for a week or two before deciding if its really fit for purpose. Even then, there's no guarantee it won't fail the moment you pay for it. At least if its an out-of-box failure you can get it replaced. You just don't get that sort of guarantee with a second-hand drive.

just one optic cable can carry a lot information to computers

It depends on the serial bit rate versus the parallel strobe cycle time but, in general, a parallel interface is faster than a serial interface. However, modern USB, Firewire, and SATA interfaces are very fast, and might be considered faster.

The BIOS of virtually all Pentium III computers is limited to 128 GiBs (a 137 GB hard drive). While you can put any size hard drive you like in the system, Windows will only be able to see 128 GiB of it. Linux should be able to address all of it, as it does not use the BIOS to access the hard drive.

You can bypass this limitation by installing a new IDE / PATA controller in an available PCI slot. Although this will increase the time it takes to boot the system slightly, it will allow you to use all available hard drive space in Windows XP (SP1 and later) and Windows 2000 (SP4).

Druids were members of the priestly and learned classes of Western Europe, Britain and Ireland. They combined the duties of priest, scholar and teacher.

The "civilization" also had warriors, who, at times of war, would use body paints. I do not know why they did this though but if you do please feel free to delete this.

If a disk is fragmented, this means that the files in your computer are spread out all over the disk taking up too much space. This can be corrected by defragmentation which consolidate all the data.

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There is difference between SATA and PATA HDD but no difference between the formatting..

You can purchase an online hard disk enclosure from the shopping website known as newegg. Alternatively you may find a better price on the amazon shopping website or from the ebay bidding website

That depends on how many drives or virtual drives you have on your computer. Mainly the C: drive has Windows on it, if you only have a C: drive all your information and programs go here, but if you have multiple drives C: drive should be mainly for your Windows operating system.

That is a job for the trusty printer.

The hard drive disk (HDD) is connected to the motherboard as with all the other components in the computer. If the computer needs to save data onto the HDD than the user input will be processed through the motherboard via the CPU (processor) and transferred into the HDD. If data is needed from the HDD once again the request will be sent through the MB via the CPU to the HDD where it will then be put back through the MB to go into the network via the network cards or USB via USB Interfaces or virtually anywhere else it is required to go.

These days (2012) you will not find many floppy disks (although just a couple of years ago we had to order special floppy drives for a server because some software would only be installed if it booted from Drive: A a floppy).

There were 8 inch and 5 inch and 31/2 inch floppy disks which were common.

The latest (diskettes) were the smallest and were protected by a hard plastic casing. Inside a thin Mylar disk coated with a magnetic surface stored the 1.44 Mb that was the capacity of most diskettes.

Hard disks have one or more aluminium or glass disks coated with magnetic surfaces. These hold much more information and now (2012) there are units that can store 3Tb or more.