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What Is a Floppy Disk Drive?
The floppy drive is another kind of storage media which is basically a computer hardware which read and write data to a small disk. It ranges from 3.5″ drive to 5.25″ drive. It’s the first …
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What Is a Serial ATA (SATA) Cable?
SATA or Serial ATA is the abbreviation of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. The SATA is an IDE standard which was released in 2001 to connect different kind of devices like motherboard, hard drives and optical …
Parallel ATA (PATA)
PATA or Parallel ATA is a standard like SATA that connects storage devices with computers. Using this IDE connection you can connect hard drives, optical drives with motherboard. Parallel ATA (PATA) PATA is a certain …
What Is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
Random Access Memory or RAM is another computer hardware part which stores data temporarily and loses everything when power goes off. The more RAM a computer possess the more faster it processes the information increasing …
What Does a Hard Drive’s Seek Time Mean?
The seek time of hard drive is the duration which a computer’s part takes to locate a specific piece of information on a storage device. It’s represented in milliseconds and the smaller this number is …
What Is Fragmentation & Defragmentation?
Fragmentation is the process to write data of hard drives or memory modules on separate locations on the drive. These fragmented pieces of data are individually called as fragments. What Is Fragmentation & Defragmentation? Defragmentation …
What is a Sector?
A sector is an equal sized division of hard drive, optical disc, floppy disk, thumb drive or any other storage media. A sector, disk sector or a block are same things. What is a Sector? …
NTFS File System
NTFS stands for New Technology File System, is a file system introduced in 1993 by Windows as they introduced the Windows NT 3.1. This is the primary file system used in every Windows version operating …
What is a Flash Drive?
Flash drive also known as USB(Universal Serial Bus) drive is a small, ultra-portable storage device which is much smaller in size and doesn’t have any moving parts like hard drives and optical drives to store …
What to Look for in a Hard Drive
When looking for a hard drive there are plethora of things to look for but most commonly you want speed and space. Hard drives have improved over time from capacity to speed as well as …
