Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Tips for buying a hard drive

Presentation of hard disk

Today hard drive is the most commonly used storage device in personal computers and laptops. Most of application programs and operating systems require hard disk for the installation and operation. That's how it is very important to check when you buy a hard disk, hard disk is adapted to your use and has or has not the options you May or May not need.

Interface hard drive

There are many types (interface) hard drives available on the market for example IDE / ATA, SCSI, external hard disk. That is why, first decide your need is internal or external hard drives. Looking to buy a hard disk the outset, it is important is the interface hard disk uses to communicate with the computer.

* IDE / ATA This type of disk space is used with IBM compatible computers, and very easy to install on a computer. Each IBM computer availability for up to four IDE devices, for example IDE hard disk, CD and DVD.

* The SCSI interface SCSI is generally of better quality and faster compared to IDE / ATA, but this solution is not better for the user to the highest level server machine. However, in some cases may be more difficult to install. To install a SCSI hard drive, you must have a SCSI card and a connection available on the SCSI cable connecting the SCSI card.

* External Hard Drive There are many solutions are also available, such as USB hard drive, fires over the hard drive and parallel disk drive. The main advantage with external hard drive, you can move it where you want very easily. Mostly external hard drive is used for data backup and change the physical location of data.

Other considerations

Here are some important considerations to consider when buying a new computer disk:

Speed: Hare disk speed plays an important role when your computer consider speed. Access to speed drive is also very high as compared to other storage devices. It is from 5 to 15 Mbps. The hard disk platters run from 3000 to 10000 tower min.

Warranty: How long is the warranty and what does it cover.

Support: Does the number of technical support a toll-free number is it open 24 hours 7 days a week.

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