Data Storage Devices
This tutorial covers hard drives, floppy drives, CD-ROMS drives, DVD drives, flash card, and flash drive storage. It explains how each works and how to install them.
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200 Ways to Revive a Hard Drive
This is a situation that every tech support person has faced or will face at least once: a failed hard drive. In this particular case, a user was getting errors like "disk 0 error" and "invalid drive specification." While the Freeze it, Hit it, and Drop it options are still experimented with by some, the current size and sensitivity of the newer larger hard drives makes these options extremely risky and definitely NOT recommended for hard drives with a capacity that's greater than 1 gig. And even then some of the operation suggested here should be approached with caution. Getting it wrong by trying to save some money will only end up costing you more if you then decide to pass on your hard drive to a data recovery company...
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A Hard Drive Guide
This tutorial helps you to learn how to select a hard drive that is right for you and how to install it!
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ATA/IDE/EIDE/SATA TechNotes
A technical and historical overview of the ATA/ATAPI specifications, including IDE, EIDE and Serial ATA
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Disk Subsystem Performance Analysis for Windows
Analyzing storage subsystem performance is an art, not a science. Each rule has an exception; each system designer or administrator has a different combination of hardware configurations and software workloads to consider. This paper examines the performance of storage subsystems used by computers running the Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems.
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Floppy Drive Install
Learn how to easily install a floppy drive in your computer.
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Floppy Drives
The floppy drive is one of the easiest parts of the computer to work with. And, considering other parts, there isn't that much to know about floppy drives. Nonetheless, they are very important to the operation of a complete computer. Basically every computer has one, even if they always use a ZIP drive, or even a Super LS-120 120MB floppy drive.
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Get to Know RAID
This is a massive tutorial covering everything you could possibly want to know about RAID and fault tolerance.
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IDE Interface
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) is really a misnomer in the way we use it today. IDE really refers to any drive with the controller built-in.
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