Top Strategies to Maximize the Life of Your Hard Drive by Alex Bezborodov
If I asked you the question: which part of your computer is the most fragile, what would you say? What if I asked: which part is most important to you? Often, the answer to both of these questions is your Hard Drive. Your hard drive is likely one the most important things you own. ... A very small power surge can fry a hard drive – use a UPS and turn off your computer when you can Another little-known fact about the fragility of your hard drive is its susceptibility to electrical failure. ... It contains work data, school data, emails, photos, music, movies, tax information, etc…...

5 Ways to Speed Up Your PC by Jim Edwards
No matter how fast your processor and regardless of how much ram you carry, there comes a time when you realize your computer just doesn't run as fast as it did when you bought it. Windows loads slower, programs take longer to launch, and, in general, your computer drags like it just came off a... Analyze your hard drive for files you can eliminate and it may shock you to see how much hard drive space (and speed) you can free up with a few clicks. ... Now imagine ripping open every drawer of every filing cabinet, slinging the contents onto the floor and trying to find one document -that's...

Firewire Hard Disks by David Stone
Firewire is a technogy for transferring data between computers or their periphial devices like external hard disk drives. In the early 1990's Apple developed the technology that became Firewire. Its technical name is IEEE 1394, and there are a few updates that have improved transfer rates. ... Hard disks' failure rate goes up extensively when they are filled with data beyond 70% of their capacity. ... A Firewire drive also offers an easy expansion to your current computer. ... Using Firewire for an external hard disk is a great application of the technology.

Increase Computer Speed: Three Cheap Solutions by Michael Quarles
Perhaps you've noticed your computer running a tad slower lately. There are no signs of a virus, or other mischief. It just seems to lumber along. Maybe it is only a matter of perception, because you can compare it to your buddy's pc, and it goes like lightning. ... As your hard drive becomes crowded with data, it has to search for space to put things, sometimes putting part of a file here, part over there. ... All the fragmented files are brought together, so your hard drive can quickly serve up what you need.

5 Tips For Buying An External Hard Drive by Niall Roche
So you've finally decided to buy an external hard drive as a backup option for your computer. This is a great choice for you because you're making backing up your data faster and easier than you could ever have imagined. You're also making your data far more portable in larger quantities than... Your external hard drive will support either USB or Firewire. ... If a Maxtor 100GB external drive costs $200 and another brand x 100GB drive costs $80 why do you think that is? ... Speed Now of course we need to talk about speed.

Make Your Computer Happy - Defrag That Disk by Shannon Baker
Just like your car, a computer needs a little bit of maintenance every so often to keep it running smoothly. One task most often overlooked is defragmenting the hard drive. Just what is hard drive defragmenting, and why should you do it? What Is File Fragmentation? ... What Does Defragmenting My Hard Drive Do? ... This same exact thing is happening on your hard drive. ... Therefore, it moves the new data into the next available spot on the hard drive and leaves itself a "note" of sorts as to where the rest of your file is.

Is Your Computer Strong Enough For An Internet Work From Home Business by Tom Worsley
If you are planning on doing business online with one of the many work from home based businesses available on the internet, then you are going to want to make sure your computer is up to the task. Although it is possible to get by with a Pentium 1, at today’s prices there is no reason to do... 3.80 Gb hard drive or better 4.Ethernet for high speed internet connection. ... I have to admit, I am still using an Intel Celeron 766 Mh computer but I upgraded the ram to 384 Mb and the hard drive to 80 Gb.

Building A Computer - Picking Components by Chris Silop
Picking the parts for your computer is one of the most important things in building a computer, because you cant assemble a computer without the parts! Picking parts for computers has become much easier than before, because things have been standardized, however, you need to make sure everything... Hard Drive Now its time to pick your hard drive. ... Other things to check for on your motherboard are the hard drive interface, graphics card interface, expansion slots, the memory size and speed. ... Almost all motherboards have IDE, but some have SATA (Serial ATA) Which is a much faster hard...

Jack the DVDRipper Comes Back to the 21st Century by Ted Peterson
Don’t worry! It’s not about killing; it’s about converting … Still, if you want to be a ripper, do it for a good purpose! For you, for your friends, for your computer, for your free time and - who knows - even for me! As a matter of fact, I’m not talking about crime at all! ... A factor that influences the working speed of the DVD ripper is the drive speed. ... The basic things that you must know regard the drive speed, cpu speed, disk space, malware, the processor needed and the available memory.

How To Format A Hard Drive by Brian Maroevich
Here's how to format a hard drive (Legal Stuff: We are not responsible for any damages, lost data, or anything of the sort)... If you have a computer, you surely know what a hard drive is. If you don't have one, or simply don't know what a hard drive is, then this article will begin with a short... This message is to indicate that the files required to boot your computer from the hard drive have been copied from the floppy to the hard drive. ... A hard disk drive in computing is a type of storage device made up of hard disk platters, a spindle, read and write heads read and write arms,...