Hard drive buying guide, buying hard drive tips
When choosing one there is only to look after speed and capacity. For normal work you need at least 250GB of space and in terms of speed there are hard drives running with 7200rpm and some with higher performance at 10000rpm. Most use ATA or IDE connection with computer. External Hard drive reviews
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So what you want to get?
Word Processing: 160+ GB, 7200rpm
Web Surfing: 160+ GB, 7200rpm
Light Gaming: 250+ GB. 7200 rpm
Heavy Gaming: 360+ GB, 7200 rpm
Digital Music: 500+ GB, 7200 rpm
Graphics Editing: 500+ GB, 7200 rpm
Digital Video: 750+ GB, 7200 rpm
If you look from this perspective: common mp3 song uses 5mb os space, common video from 700mb to 1,5GB.
ATA and IDE are quite similar, their only difference is that the ATA drive is more easy to install, and has less cables.
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