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hugepedia on Apr 19, 2011 in
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ATA laptop hard disk drives (HDD) are slowly going extinct. The main reason for this to happen is the age of the IDE interface, developed a long time ago (~20 years ago). The ATA, IDE, EIDE or PATA (parallel ATA) interface requires very wide cables with 40 wires or 80 wires for high speed data transfers....
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hugepedia on Apr 19, 2011 in
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At the beginning of the computer age hard drives were more external than internal, in the sense that they were huge separate units, but stored very little data.
Modern IBM hard drives were small enough to fit on a table, but still were able to store very little data, just a kilobytes. Hard...
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hugepedia on Mar 30, 2011 in
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Hard drives can be considered the most important parts of computers, because they store all essential files, starting from system files and operating system to the user’s multimedia files. About 20 years ago the average hard drive capacity was just 1GB, but today all sizes are available between...
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hugepedia on Mar 25, 2011 in
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Classic hard drives are here to stay, at least for another 10 years or so. Their main competition represented by SSDs with the same shape, but completely different technology, is still catching up in both price and reliability aspects. It is scientifically proven that these SSDs, based on flash memory...
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hugepedia on Jan 14, 2011 in
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Many computer manufacturers offer warranty for their products, which covers all kinds of damages. The most important thing to remember is that most of these warranties don’t refer to your software and/or personal data you may have on the computer.
Data recovery is not a standard service, and...
