Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Hard Drives

Hard drives, hard disk drives or fixed disk drives are random access digital magnetic data storage devices. Hard Drives are very important part of a computer. Most of desktop computer and servers in use today contain one or more hard-disk drives. Every mainframe and supercomputer is normally connected to hundreds of hard drives because they need more space for their work. You can even find VCR-type devices and camcorders that use hard drives instead of tape drives. These billions of hard drives do one thing well and they store changing digital information in a relatively permanent form. They give computers the ability to remember things when the power goes out. Seagate, WDC Western Digital, HP / Compaq, Samsung and Hitachi/IBM are the best companies for hard drives. Most computer users are using 250 GB-520 GB Hard Drives. If your computer is more powerful then you can use use more data storage capacity. A computer will not function to well without hard drives. So hard drives are very important for computers to function.