the current list I am looking at right now. Questions 1.a. SSD vs HDD 7500, 10k 15K (Boot drive and working program drive - thougt of using a 500 gig Sata II 3.0g HDD for storage and read write drive for movies, music files and so on. 1/b. AMD x2 6000...

head pivots out to the track it can read/write the data in one revolution of the disk platter. If a file is fragmented, say part is on track number 28 and the remainder is on track 31 then the head has to move twice to read/write the whole file. The more...

2.66 Ghz Dual Core 2GB ram 300GB, 500 GB, 500 GB hard drives (7200 rpm each) Intel® Desktop Board DQ965GF I'll be running simulations which involves fair deal of reading from and writing to drives, in addition to CPU usage. I'd like to make sure that...

Is it time to buy another DVD/CD read/write drive?. My DVD/CD read/write worked fine when I rebuilt my PC recently. But today, it has decided that it does not want to play nice. When I push the "door open" button, the light comes on, a few mechanical noises...

drives you're using. Anna Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () No, I mean on this machine I can read and write to the drives using things like Ghost, or Maxplus, or just DOS boot disks. I am trying to install XP onto the...

floppy drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () Just purchased a new computer with Windows XP installed; it did not come with a floppy drive so I bought a good new external read/write drive. I have older floppy disks that...

a copy of the drive image file to the data partition on the old HDD: by reading from one HDD and writing to a second HDD, the restore task won't need to "thrash" the read/write armature. The latter "thrashing" will happen if you must read the drive image file...

read/write sequentially. If drive 0 is reading there is no writing on drive 0 or drive 1, until the IDE controller shares out the disk activity or the reading on drive 0 is completed. Thus, placing the pagefile on the second drive (drive 1) of the same...

It has a DVD read write drive. How do I find >> out >>> the specifications of the drive and how to use it? >>> Thanks, Jim Actually the OP stated "DVD read write drive", not DVD-ROM. Dell only offers +R/RW. The drive would of come with some...