This one’s easier than the defrag article I posted a while ago. I mean if you’re not much into computers, it’s the easiest thing to do. For an easy hard disk cleaning, you can just empty your Recycle or Trash bin regularly. The files or programs that you think you’ve deleted can come back and hunt you since they’re still in the Trash bin. And yes, they’re still taking up space in your hard drive. Another thing you can do is to clean the temporary files that your system keeps for a little documentation.

The Control Unit or the CU and the Arithmetic and Logic Unit also known as the ALU are the subsystems of the core unit. When these two are combined, the CPU is created.

The CPU has many input and output devices including the 32-bit microprocessor, the Read Only Memory or the ROM and the Random Access Memory popularly known as RAM. The CPU has two slots for its memory: the Main memory and the Secondary memory. These two memory slots have different purposes and both are important to make the CPU run.

The leading supplier of innovative computer products including hard disk is the Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., it is a peripheral and biometric security solutions, it was announced the launch of its MHZ2 BH series mobile hard disk drive (HDD). It was developed in response to the growing demand for higher capacity storage products required for the notebook PC’s, compact PC’s, some consumer power applications and the MHZ2 BH will be available to customer in the first quarter of 2008.

How important are good disks really? Hmm… let me break these down into three posts.

The most obvious reason is that the hard disk is where you store all your programs and data so it is very important to get a hard disk that has enough storage space for your needs. So if you’re the type that hoards all those latest software programs – you get my drift.

Next reason is performance. You got to have a reliable and speedy hard disk since it affects how fast your PC can boost and load programs. If you’ve noticed that the performance of your PC slows down when you have many of these applications and programs open at the same time, then that means your hard disk is getting slow too.

Ahh.., defragmentation. I hate this chore but I bear with it since it keeps my hard disk neat and organized. And from what I hear it’s one of the most neglected maintenance processes that PC users forget. It’s one of the Tools option when you go to the properties of Windows (C:). What defrag does is to lessen the amount of fragmentation in file systems. It’s like a librarian who detects which book is not in its proper shelf, gets this particular book and place it back to its proper place with all the other books of its kind.

Another product unveiling here! Whew! Technology is really a fast-paced industry. I can hardly keep up with it!

Anyway, Seagate Technology LLC is to launch its updated Momentus laptop disk drive. The new Momentus 5400.4 version is 2.5 inches and has storage capacity of 160GB up to a maximum of 250GB. Not only that, the new version of the drive has a faster transfer rate of 3Gbit/sec – definitely afar cry from 2006’s Momentus 5400.3 which ran at 1.5Gbit/sec.

I guess this is Seagate’s attempt to bump off fierce competition from rivals (Western Digital Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. and Toshiba Corp.,). Brrr….. Competition is indeed fierce if you take that into consideration!

Source: Computerworld

Second to my three-part post regarding the importance of hard disks since I know you can’t get enough (wink-wink).

Have you ever experience your hard disk suddenly conking out on you? I know there are signs but I’ll reserve those for later posts. Anyway, if you haven’t I’ll tell you. I’d rather have my monitor burst into flames since it doesn’t necessarily affect the work I’m doing on my PC. But data (goodness, if data is lost) which happens with an unreliable hard disk can really send me to the hospital. Am I exaggerating? No, I don’t think so.

All your digital photographs, software programs, home videos, music, hardware drivers, documents, etc are copied to another safe location. So even if your main hard-disk runs out of service, you don’t loose any of those irreplaceable treasures.

When you are upgrading the hard-disk of your computer, you can just create a disk image of the original hard-disk and then migrate that disk image onto the new drive. You don’t have to undergo the painful process of reinstalling the OS, all the software or migrating the documents from one hard-disk to another. It’s all done by the disk imaging software.

You have a nice, decent sized 20GB hard drive in your new iMac… but you notice that only 10GB is left! Yes, you did install a number of programs- but not 10GB worth. Or you may have an old Performa with a 1GB hard drive and find you only have 50MB left.

What happened to all that space? Well, the truth is that you probably have many duplicate files on your hard drive. How many? It’s hard to say, but there are a few common things to look for.

Almost every application installs a copy to make sure that you can read the included “ReadMe” file. You probably don’t even use the one copy of SimpleText that came installed on your computer! Use Find File or Sherlock to search for “SimpleText” and delete all but one copy.

How about computer damages? If you are a computer expert, then by all means, do the repair on your own. However, if you know nothing about computers and plan to follow a do it yourself tip to fix that computer part (hard disk for example), do not dare experiment. Aside from ruining the warranty of your computer, you might damage more parts inside just by tinkering with it.