Hard Drive Shopping Guide
Hard drives are the storage medium in desktop and laptop
computers as well as all servers and mainframes throughout the world. A hard
drive is a piece of hardware that reads and writes data on a hard disk. Hard
disk drives for personal computers generally have seek times of about 12
milliseconds or less. Many hard drives improve their performance through a
technique called caching. There are several interface standards for passing
data between a hard drive and a computer. The most common are IDE and SCSI. Although
removable disks encased in cartridges use the same “hard” disk media
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