subject: Store Huge Amounts Of Data With A Hard Drive [print this page] Data or files which need to be stored on a computer or desktop may be done with the help of a hard drive, as it provides the space for storing the data on computer. It is mandatory in a computer for it to work. The first hard disk drive was launched by IBM in 1956. The data to be stored in the computer may be image, audio and video files and many others. The main drive in any computer is the C Drive and the name is, by default, assigned by Windows. A hard drive can be divided into different logical drives and each of them is used to store important data or files required by the user.
There are varieties of hard drives manufactured by many companies. The points that must be considered before purchasing hard drives are their speed and size, as both of these can help you in your smooth working. With time and demand, a tremendous change in the size of hard drives has been seen. The indication for the size of a hard drive is designated as bytes. Most hard drives are designated by gigabytes (GB), but in recent years demand by users has reached a peak and the size of hard drives moved to terabytes (TB). One gigabyte is equivalent to 1024 megabytes; one terabyte is equivalent to 1024 gigabytes.
The speed of a standard hard drive is around 7200rpm with a spin rate of around 10000rpm. Thus, both speed and size are the major aspects that must be considered before purchasing hard disk drives. If you are a game lover, you will require a huge amount of space as well as speed to download games and have room to store them. This can be possible only if you have a hard drive of a higher configuration, as in most games the minimum requirements are stated in order to operate it.
If you want external hard drives, they are also easily available. The external hard drive can be of any size you want. Nowadays, portable hard drives are in great demand, as they can be attached to their computers when required. A hard drive is a random access and non-volatile device. The drive consists of read write heads, which help in the reading and writing of data on disk. Thus, if you want to free yourself from any difficulties regarding storage space problems, you should opt for a hard drive with higher configurations.
