Configuring the Internal Drives ... Step 11 of 21 by Chuck Lunsford
Before configuring you must decide what type of drives and how many you want in your system. Unless you plan on using your PC for more involved applications such as networking then one drive should be sufficient. In fact with today’s drive sizes like the LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive coming in at... Strictly speaking, "drive" refers to a device that drives (removable) media, such as a tape drive or (floppy) disk drive, while a hard disk contains fixed (non-removable) media. ... If you have a second hard drive, set it as slave on IDE 1.

Media Storage Devices – Choosing a Storage Device by Lucy Bartlett
Media storage devices are capable of preserving data, images, audio and video files of large sizes in a comparatively small area. The evolution of the media storage devices right from the 64 KB floppy disk with its huge size (5 ¾ inches) to the present day pen drives having a capacity 80GB has... Since many of the media storage devices which were very popular a few years ago have now become totally obsolete, we will start from the hard disk and zip drive which set a trend in removable media storage device.

USB Flash Drives - Portable Storage At Its Best by Gabriel J. Adams
A USB flash drive is a small portable storage device that plugs into the USB port on your computer. A USB drive can hold anywhere from a few Megabytes up to 64 Gigabytes or more. Because USB flash drives use the USB interface and the USB mass storage standard, they do not need a driver, and are... Some specialized flash drives can also function as digital media or MP3 players. ... If your computer has the ability to boot up from your USB port, you can boot up from an operating system installed on your USB flash drive.

CDR Media by Steve Valentino
A CD-R is essentially a compact disc that can be recorded only once. A CD-R cannot be over written or erased. Taiyo Yuden was the pioneer of the first original gold/green CD-R. Organic dyes are the essential building block of CD-R media, and provide a reflective layer. ... However, performance of any media is at all times a combination of the disc, the drive that is used to record it and the device that has to read it. ... Experts often suggest that before placing an order for CD-R media, people should check samples to determine compatibility.

Are Hard Drives Better for Backups than CD/DVDs or Tapes? by Buddy Shearer
Are hard drives better for backups than CD/DVDs or Tapes? Tapes have issues and so do CD/DVDs. Well, on thing is for sure. These are better than nothing. In fact, a thumb drive or USB drive is better than nothing but weigh all of the facts before you come to any conclusion. ... I mentioned a thumb drive as being better than nothing and while that is true they have their own major issue. ... Just make sure the drive is of a new model. ... It is true a tape can be zapped with a magnetic but a CD/DVD should not be hurt by one.

Tape Data Recovery Software by Nehaa Gupta
Tape drives are installed in the cleanest environment and require high quality, cleaning on a regular basis, and proper handling of the tape media. Improper or poor usage, handling, and storing of tape drives lead to tape drive corruptions or damages. ... Tape media can get damage or corrupt due to mishandling, improper usage, damaged tape headers, erased tape drives, broken or de-spooled backup tapes, failed backup systems and tape libraries, unexpected system shutdowns or system failures. ... This type of data recovery includes dealing with deteriorating magnetic coatings, broken tapes,...

Mt. Rainier: Is It Necessary? by Jason Busch
Mt. Rainier technology is making its way back into the mainstream with the announcement of its availability on Windows Vista, which will officially be released in 2007. But computer users should ask themselves if this feature and technology is even worth adding to an Operating System, let alone... Currently, RW media is not that consistent when being read by various media drives made by various manufacturers. ... A hard drive is still quicker than the access times of any current media drive so why would a person use their -RW drive to drag and drop files and erase them?

3.5" FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) is Dead! Long live the USB Drive! by Akhilesh Singh
Do you remember the last time you used the FDD drive of your computer, and for what? Chance is if you have used it then it would be for some emergency booting of the computer, or for recovery of your broken OS. Meaning you would have not used it for data transfer using this medium. ... Example includes: - USB Hard Disk Drives - Zip Drive with USB interface - digital camera acting as an USB drive for accessing the photographs directly on any computer - PDAs like Palm that already connect to the computer using USB acts as a USB drive for accessing the data stored in its memory and SD/MMC...

Virtual Reality Travel - Will it Solve the Problem of Global Warming? by Lance Winslow
Consider if you will for a moment the fact that cars, buses and airplanes put out CO2 into the atmosphere. If we are to prevent the (pollution) CO2 from entering the air, that means we cannot drive at our vehicles or fly our aircraft. If we are to cut down on the human emissions of CO2 people... "Change whether reality driven, politically driven, evolutionary driven, society driven or all of the above is a given" - Lance 07' Virtual Reality Worlds will be driven by those holding the strings of budding entrepreneurs, as they prop them up and drive capital into their exploits to over take...

ABC's Of DVD Drive Abbreviations by Jason Kohrs
The number of different formats available in DVD drives can be confusing to anyone in the market for one. The list is much longer, but to address a few of the common formats, we have DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM ,DVD+R DL and DVD±RW. ... DVD in a Nutshell DVD-ROM : Reads DVD discs DVD+R : Writes to DVD+R media (will also typically write to CD-R and CD-RW media) DVD+RW : Writes to DVD+RW media (will also typically write to DVD+R, CD-R and CD-RW media) DVD+R DL : Writes to DVD+R DL (Double Layer) media (will also typically write to DVD+R, DVD+RW, CD-R and CD-RW media;...