Hard Disk Drive Interfaces De-mystified There are several types of interfaces available, Which one do you choose? What do these different letters mean? How do I know which one is correct for my PC? Technology...
This second part explains some of the crucial installation steps required to get your new external hard disk enclosure working. Assuming that you have purchased an internal, 3.5inch, ide hard disk drive and...
Need more storage space on your PC? Hard disk drive filled up to the brim with all thos digital photos, MP3s and movies. More importantly you want more space, but dont want to perform an open heart surgery on...
How to Build a Quiet PC There are a 1001 articles out there that give you methods for quieting your PC. Some of those methods are helpful and some are inadequate. These five simple steps are what we beliveve...
Pentium64 Dual Core 6.4Ghz 2GB/250GB + 19" Widescreen TFT LCD Contacted Palicomp by telephone after winning auction, upgraded system, advised over phone,that I could pay by Credit Card, no mention of any extra...
Dispelling the Confusion: SATA II does not mean 3Gb/s The term SATA II has grown in popularity as the moniker for the SATA 3Gb/s data transfer rate, causing great confusion with customers because, quite...
The best way to test it is to use a piece of software called Drive Fitness Test, this is a DOS application that runs from a Boot Floppy or a Bootable CD. You cannot use Windows to test the drive. If you do a...
Hard drive and optical storage devices for the personal computer market have been using variations of the IDE and ATA standards for over 10 years now. It has undergone a great many revisions over the years and...
Introduction As 7200rpm hard drives are the standard today, and high-rpm drives are found in most desktop PCs, and not just in servers, hard drive cooling has become a more important issue Most recent IDE...
I've owned a Shuttle SK41G barebones system since 2003 (at the time of writing that would make it approximately 4 years old). Computers don't usually last more than 2 or 3 years before they go out of date, but...