How To Choose The Right Hard Disk Drive When Building Your Computer
A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is data storage
A Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is data storage. All your files such as mp3s, movies and games including your windows operating system are stored in your hard drive. This Article will help you to choose the perfect hard drive when building your computer.
Interface
There are 2 types of interface being used in hard drives the ATA and the SATA. The ATA (advance technology attachment) or commonly known as IDE is the older and the SATA (serial advance technology attachment) is the latest. The IDE is slower and it supports only up to 500GB. Unlike SATA hard drives can handle even greater than one terabyte of memory storage. Also SATA hard drive performs faster in retrieving and saving data.
Speed
The speed of the hard drive is determined by how fast the platter spins. The platter of the hard drive is where the data was written. Available speeds are 5400, 7400 and 10000 RPM (revolution per minute). This means that the higher speed the better because it performs faster in writing and reading data.
Another thing that makes the hard drive faster is by using memory cache. Memory cache is a temporary storage that stores data that are always in used. Instead of frequently seeking the data on the disk it is faster when the data is already on the cache memory. Memory cache sizes are available from 8MB to 64MB depending on the size of the hard drive.
Storage
Storage is the most important factor because it determines how big is needed to store all your files. Available sizes nowadays are ranging from 250GB 1.5 Terabyte and soon greater than that. If youre a heavy downloader specially movies, mp3s and games youll going to need a bigger disk space.
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