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How Large, How Fast? Choosing The Right Hard Drive Size And RPM

One necessary and extremely important component of computers is the hard drive. The hard drive stores your games, applications, music, pictures, videos, and documents. As such, you should be sure the notebook computer you're thinking of buying has a hard drive that can give you the storage and performance that you need.

  • 2 Jul 2017

Best Methods To Backup Files

As much as every computer wants to deny the inevitable, your data is only as secure as your backups. Every hard drive is eventually going to fail (and malicious software frequently targets data files), and you will lose years' worth of files, documents, programs, and all other information that you have kept and stored in your computer unless you have a good backup.

  • 3 Jul 2017

What Are The Benefits Of Mobile Dual-Core Processors?

When browsing through different notebook computer models, you are guaranteed to encounter the "Intel Core 2 Duo" or the "AMD Turion 64 x2" labels. These labels indicate dual-core processing technology for mobile computing.

  • 5 Jul 2017
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    Review: The Mac Mini – Is this Piece of Semi-Tiny Tech Right For You?

    The Mac Mini made waves as one of the smallest desktop computers available to buy. And, as with everything Apple do, its size has not impacted its function. What You Need To Know About The Mac Mini The Mac Mini stands out in the world of desktop computing thanks to its size and weight: * 1.4 inches tall, * 7.7 inches wide, * 7.7 inches deep, * 3.0 pounds in weight.

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    A Review of Various Camera Media Storage Types

    Storage media cards for digital cameras come in many different types, sizes and capacities, however, all do the same job - they store images and data in an electronic format. Here's a guide to the most common formats.

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26 Jun 2017
Posted By Bryce A.

A Guide to External Hard Drives

Computer storage devices connected to outside ports on a computer are called external hard drives. These devices are used to store audio and video, images, documents and various other types of information. Physical sizes and shapes vary greatly depending on which company is making the hard drive and capacities range from very small to very large depending upon the needs of the consumer. In general, though, all external hard drives serve the same purpose.
29 Jun 2017
Posted By Fina H.

Hard Drives: An Overview

Hard drives are the primary storage devices for personal computers. They are capable of quickly storing a large amount of information for long periods of time. The inner workings of a hard drive resemble a turntable with a number of records called platters. Data is written to these platters via magnetism by an access arm.Early hard drives, invented in 1956, were very large and often needed to be stored on the floor or in dedicated equipment racks.
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9 Jul 2017
Posted By Dewey W.

Unreliable hard drive: Seven signs it is time for a new hard Drive

Hard drives don't always fail because they are old and simply wear out. There are other reasons why laptop hard drive recovery or simply hard disk data recovery may be needed. Here is a look at seven reasons why a hard drive may fail and you may lose data you collected and need hard disk data recovery or Mac hard drive recovery.Here are the seven reasons it is best to have a professional check your hard drive or disk of data if you.
23 Jul 2017
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Apple's new Force Touch trackpad makes an early appearance in the updated MacBook Pro

http://cnet.co/1ERPjEk The smaller Retina MacBook Pro gets a new CPU, faster flash memory and a new touchpad, but it's still only a minor update from the past ...

29 Jun 2017
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Three ways to use a USB drive with your PS3 - CNET How to

http://howto.cnet.com Those USB ports on the front of your PS3 aren't just for charging your controllers. Sharon Vaknin offers three ways to use a USB drive to ...

25 Jul 2017
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CNET How to: Five cool uses for a USB flash drive

http://cnet.com/how-to Your USB flash drive isn't just for storing data. Sharon Vaknin shows off five little-known ways to make your portable drive more useful.


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