How to Choose Your Hard Disk?

With the continuous development of computer technology, more than a decade the hard disk plays the role as the medium power of storage media. It has earth-shaking changes in terms of capacity or performance aspects. Hard drive, as one of the most important parts of the personal computer, in the network era it is assumed to take up more storage tasks. Generally speaking, when we buy hard disk, there are several factors that we will think over: interface, capacity, speed, cache, Services, etc. So now let us make a comprehensive analysis one by one.

1. Interface type
Hard disk interface can be divided into two categories, namely IDE and SCSI. For ordinary users, the most contact is the IDE, it is also the most common type of an interface. IDE interface from the earliest, it adopted ST-506/412 and then developed into the current ATA / 100. After several times, it supports the maximum data transfer rate from the early 10Mbps to the current 100MB/s. ATA / 100 is the mainstream hard disk commonly used interface type. It supports the theoretical burst rate of 100MB/s.

2. Capacity
We need to say, and now the maximum capacity of the hard disk in the market has reached 160GB. This is really a very attractive capacity. And now the hard disk capacity has been raised to 200GB as much! Despite the capacity to upgrade a lot, but the price is still acceptable. From the point of view of the purchase, we should be able to accept the range, try to choose a large capacity hard drive as possible. We can not imagine how much capacity that the operating system and the game will occupy. But one thing is certain, that is getting bigger and bigger. So do not hesitate to buy hard drives, the greater capacity, the better drive.

3. Speed
In addition to the capacity, speed is the most compelling performance parameters of a hard disk. The faster the speed is, the higher the transmission rate is. Now the market is common in two mainstream hard drive, 5400 and 7200. There are also some 4500 rpm low-speed hard drive. For the whole system is not very high requirements, so there is no need to choose high-speed hard drive. But then again, it is a little difference between 7200 rpm hard drive and 5400 rpm hard drive. So it is better for us to choose 7200 turn.

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