Hard Drive Selection

Perhaps the biggest mistakes people make when building their computer (s) is to underestimate the importance of disk drive (HDD). In our modern society, bigger is synonymous with better, so when you go to purchase a hard drive to explore ways to store is the ability of data. But that's all that should be taken into consideration when purchasing your hard drive? As with any other component of your computer's hard disk is too complex a system to describe the details, but hopefully at the end of this article, you'll know what to look for when you buy your new hard drive . There are 4 main issues to consider in a hard disk (in order of importance): <li> frequency of rotation, and means of research <li> <li> Buffer Size internal / external rates Transfer Capacity <li> the frequency of rotation has become an important outlet (5400/7200/10000/15000RPM) recently, it should not be too difficult to know what the turnover rate of your hard drive Is when you come to buy. Now, of course, faster turns, the faster you can read the disc (there are also other benefits), but keep in mind that run faster, wear has been placed in the 'device, and more likely to respond to mistakes and failures later in life. The disks are completely alone in their computer systems which have moving parts (CD-ROM, floppy, and fans also have moving parts, but all are cheap and if you do not lose s all the data you've accumulated during your own computer, make sure you back up data regularly). If you know something physical or engineering, and you know that moving parts to produce friction and wear and a plaque which runs faster (party who owns the data and turn), will result in more friction and , Hence, more wear on the device. Of course, the fastest spinning faster than you can read data from the tray. So what can you do? then again backing up your data as much as possible and get the fastest car spinning money can buy (that is, ATA 7200 (the kind that you buy) and for some 15000rpm SCSI and Serial ATA (Serial ATA May occur, depending on the motherboard)). Find a 7200 label on the device you have in mind to obtain, it is important! buffer I refer to the transmission of memory that stores data temporarily in order to read or write on the hard drive. The reason is that buses (data channel between the reader and the motherboard) can not handle as much information at once, and it takes a long time for data that can be found and recovered an antenna ( random search time), it takes a large part of the requested data and stores it in a buffer to send data quickly to comfort the bus. Hence, with a larger cache queue can transfer data on the bus without having to submit requests to slow down to get more details about the dishes. Some new devices are provided with a maximum capacity of 8 MB buffer, but it is more common to see 2 or 4 Mo. Typically, a car with a lot to be used as a salesman and print on the box / site, or can it be assumed that a buffer 2/4MB. My advice is to find one with anything they can afford. Now, for the transfer rate you have to do some queries, the best way to find these figures is to visit the manufacturer's Web site and see a sheet of specifications for the model you want to buy (actually, that is the best way to get all the information I have talked to this day). One thing you have to look at is that you can read anything that says that the 133MB / s ATA/133 or SATA150 or 150 Mb / s, and these are not the numbers you're looking, the figures describing the bus that connects the drive to the motherboard, and many theoretical maximum, which tells us almost nothing. Furthermore, if you buy a Maxtor, not bother to do research for the transfer rate, which is apparently Maxtor afraid to disclose such information. Not to say Maxtor drives are bad, in fact, Maxtor has reached the summit when it comes to technical support and is much more willing to replace a defective devices that few other enterprises, which is important since some ridiculously large number (something like that, as 10 or 15%) hard drives are either dead on arrival or died within a few weeks of use. As in the last two points, when you look at the speed of transfer (if you can find them) always try to choose the one that has the highest number that you can afford. It is noteworthy that the first three of page 4 are all aspects related to speed? It was done deliberately to give an idea of the importance of speed on the hard drive because they are very slow creatures, and their gaming experience that does not require a huge hard drive faster. To increase the speed much more, you can set up a RAID, which is a network of hard drives that (RAID0) share parts of the same data, for example, access to data is 1 / No time (n = The number of disks attached) compared with 1 disk. To do this, you really need a hardware RAID chipset, which is usually included in the high-end Graphics. The last capacity is not necessary precision. Smaller disks, you can buy today who are still in the types of high-speed, is on all 30GB, which is more than sufficient for its Thursday However, since the games are not everything, and if they are a member or as iTunes to download the animals you really want something more than space. I would therefore recommend to be something between 60 and 120, and you'll pay through their teeth, and everything, but it May be want to buy a hard drive in a couple of years. And, oh yeah, 300 GB hard drives Maxtor east, but they are relatively slow, we recommend that you do not get a game that I like to stick to a single antenna devices (40 to 100 GB rule General), and they produce less heat and are less likely to break on me. It's really all you need to know to make a good choice when you upgrade the hard drive or to buy a new computer. There are of course many other Internet resources for more information on the activities of internal hard drives. About the author JA Carpunky http://www.computer-gaming-system.com target = _new http://www.computer-gaming-system.com - Visit our site for more details.