Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive

Western Digital WD Elements 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive





Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Get the Most Out of Your Internal Hard Drive

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In order to get the most operation out of one's hard drive, one needs to do a few simple things. It will be helpful to have a Phillips head screw driver, a partitioning program, and an anti-virus schedule in order to fully and truly optimize an internal hard drive. However, there is one piece of advice that holds true for almost all hard drives: the more full they get, they slower they perform. The first step in achieving optimal hard disk operation should therefore be the elimination of any unnecessary files.



The screw driver will help only in the case of older Ide internal hard drives. Opportunity the case and discovering if the internal drive is on the same cable as an optic disk drive is the first chore. It pays to remember that in the case of old Ide configurations, the total speed is per channel, not per drive. This means that an hard drive sharing the same ribbon cable as an optic drive will see its operation severely degraded once one begins using the optic drive. In an ideal configuration, the optic drive would be on a different channel than the traditional internal hard drive.

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Newer Sata and Sata Ii internal hard drives do not have this limitation, but there may be operation problems if one is using an Sata Ii internal hard drive with an Sata connector. The newer appropriate allows for twice the speed as well as other improvements that can streamline random reads and writes more effectively, so it behooves one to find an add-in card that supports Sata Ii drives if this is the case. Be wary of inexpensive Sata Ii add-in cards as they may not deliver the full operation as promised by the specification itself, or worse yet they may not be bootable.

Get the Most Out of Your Internal Hard Drive
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Having an up to date partitioning schedule is foremost for anyone that knows how to use it properly. It is foremost to back up all data before attempting to repartition any internal hard drive. Internal hard drives are basically magnetic platters spinning rapidly under a read/write head at a speed that is commonly fixed. This means that the outer rims of each magnetic platter not only store the most data, but they are also the surface areas where data can be read and written the quickest. Set up a partition for the outer area of the drive large sufficient to host swap files or other speed sensitive data.

It is sad, but true: viruses are everywhere and they not only eat Cpu time and memory, they also can be the cause of poor hard disk performance. There are plentifulness of free anti-virus applications on the market, so there honestly isn't any excuse not to at least use an anti-virus schedule to systematically sweep the internal hard drive and ensure that all is clear.

To summarize, the traditional ways to keep an internal hard drive in tip top shape are: removing unnecessary files, don't let the interface be the limiting factor, partition when applicable and keep it virus free.

Get the Most Out of Your Internal Hard Drive

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