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Upgrading Your Optical Drive: A Simple Procedure Most optical drives have only a power cable and a data cable, both of which should be easy enough to disconnect and then attach to the new drive.   |
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Step-By-Step: Get Maximum Speed From Your New Drives Ensure that your upgraded drives give you the best performance possible. |
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March 1, 2006 |
An Optical Drive Upgrade How to remove a CD-RW and install a CD-DVD unit. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2004
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How To Change A Hard Drive Adding hard-drive space for more storage. |
PC World
September 2002
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Your Next Hard Drive Serial ATA drives debut, drive capacities to reach 200GB. |
PC World
August 2006 |
Ask Our Experts: DVD Burner Life Span? How long should an optical drive last under normal use? |
Macworld
June 2002
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Four Products That Let You Hook Up Fast, High-Capacity Storage, without a Lot of Clutter If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of very fast storage to your system or to upgrade your boot drive... |
PC World
September 29, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
DVD Burners Gain LightScribe, DVD-RAM Our chart ranks nine new feature-packed internal and external drives. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2005
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Build An External Hard Drive How to assemble an external hard drive for a lot less than buying a new one. |
PC World
April 24, 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Install a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive One of the most popular upgrade projects, step by step... |
PC World
September 2003
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Step-By-Step: Boost Your Hard-Drive Speed With Serial ATA Serial ATA drives offer serveral advantages over parallel drives -- including speed. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Transferring Mirrored RAID 1 Data Mirroring data from an old drive to a new drive. |
PC World
November 2000
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Upgrade Guide: Manage Your Drive Connections The EIDE interface is the main storage connection in most PCs, not just for hard drives and CD-ROM drives but for CD-RW and removable-media drives as well. A poor configuration can hurt performance, so the more devices you hook up, the more important managing the multiple connections becomes... |
PC World
March 2006
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Beware of Double Drives External hard drives with 1 terabyte of storage combine multiple drives. What if one fails? |
PC World
January 2004
Stan Miastkowski |
Step-By-Step: Burn Your Own DVDs for Backup or Video Playback Here's how to install a DVD drive and transfer videotape to DVD. |
PC World
September 2002
Sean Captain |
Buyers' Guide to Hard Drives If you work mostly in standard office programs, nearly any drive will do. But speed counts for multimedia authoring. |
PC World
September 2004
Dahl & Baguley |
Your Ideal PC Whether you're upgrading your PC or building one from scratch, we show you how to choose the right parts and put them all together. |
PC World
June 2, 2008
Melissa J. Perenson |
Desktop Hard Drives Shrink Though 3.5-inch hard drives have long been standard in desktop PCs, manufacturers are moving toward 2.5-inch drives. |
PC World
September 2003
Jeff Bertolucci |
60-Minute Upgrades Get new PC power in an hour -- or less -- with these speed boosters, storage add-ons, and more. Plus: Tune-up tips to keep your system going strong. |
PC World
July 2003
Stan Miastkowski |
Put Together a Custom PC Get the right components and assemble a system that's suitable for your needs and budget. |
PC World
April 2003
Jon L. Jacobi |
The Whole Drive Guide Advice for the gigabyte-addicted: How to upgrade to today's best and biggest -- or keep your current hard disks running smoothly. |
PC Magazine
December 24, 2003
Jamie M. Bsales |
First External SATA Backup Drive With the CMS Velocity Series drives, you really have no excuse for not backing up. |
Macworld
January 2001
Joseph Schorr |
Starving for Storage? Add a Second Hard Drive -- All It Takes Is One Screwdriver and Five Minutes... |
PC World
October 2003
Melissa J. Perenson |
MIA: Top-Speed DVD Media Faster drives, but where are the discs? |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
David A. Karp |
Build a RAID Array Don't wait inevitable hard disk crash; set up a mirrored RAID array and let your PC handle the backups for you. |
PC World
April 2006
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Get More, Spend Less on Your PC Storage Upgrades The pros and cons of different storage media, and how to figure out which one you need... Connecting the S/PDIF audio port on a HP Media Center PC to an amplifier... A weightier mouse... |
InternetNews
March 9, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Seagate, AMD Double Down on SATA Speeds AMD and Seagate today discuss the next leap in hard disk performance, a doubling of Serial ATA throughput. |
PC World
September 2001
Sean Captain |
Hard Drives: 100GB & Larger Desktop drives have reached 100GB, and larger models are waiting in the wings, but technical limits stand in the way... |
PC World
June 2004
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Get the Hard Drive That's Right for You and Your PC There is a whole lot more than size to consider when shopping for today's hard drives. Here's advice on purchasing the right one for you. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
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Tech Buzz 08/04 DVD burning, digital password storage, and more. |
PC World
March 2005
Jon L. Jacobi |
Give Your Storage a Boost Lower costs and higher capacity make hard drives a great bargain right now. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Optical Cable Certified by DOD The U.S. Department of Defense has certified Optical Cable Corp. as a fully qualified supplier of ground tactical fiber optic cable, meeting all military requirements. |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004
Molly K. McLaughlin |
Add Storage, Simply Looking for an easier way to upgrade or augment your storage? The ADS Dual Link Drive Kit grows with you. |
PC World
December 2005
Kirk Steers |
A Tour of the Thoroughly Modern Motherboard If you haven't looked inside a PC in the last year or two, you may not recognize everything there. Here's a tour of today's motherboard. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Avoid Startup Slowdown From Mapped Drives How to tell Microsoft Windows XP not to search nonlocal resources when it's not connected to an intranet. |
PC World
April 2005
Jon L. Jacobi |
HP's LightScribe Etches DVD Labels DVD burner's included technology lets you add your own disc labels. |
PC Magazine
July 12, 2006
Oliver Kaven |
Expert View: Selecting The Right Raid Level For Your NAS NAS devices play a key role in many businesses and homes today, and a failure can be catastrophic. |
Macworld
October 27, 2006
James Galbraith |
LaCie d2 DVD+/-RW with LightScribe All current Macs can read DVDs, but not all Macs can burn them. But you can add an external FireWire DVD burner -- like this one from LaCie. |
PC World
February 5, 2003
Tom Mainelli |
Dell Drops Floppy Drives in New PCs Future Dimension 8250 desktops will offer floppy drives as an option -- alongside thumb drives. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007
John Brandon |
The Future of Storage Keeping all the information we're accumulating will take a herculean storage drive. |
PC World
March 2003
Jon L. Jacobi |
Bye-Bye CD-RW? More choices, price drops favor DVD burners. |
CIO
November 15, 2003
Christopher Lindquist |
Next on the Menu: A New SCSI Standard In 2004, a new SCSI standard, called Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), promises to take the venerable storage technology to a new level -- or at least empty some systems of all that cable clutter. |
InternetNews
August 30, 2007
Leslie Wood |
Optical Storage Aims for Enterprise Acceptance Blue-laser optical storage offers high capacity, long shelf life and cost savings. So why isn't it catching on in enterprise storage environments? |
Macworld
July 2004
Kristina De Nike |
G5Jam Internal hard drives give the G5 a performance boost |
PC Magazine
April 7, 2011
Matthew Murray |
How to Build a Mini Fusion PC AMD's new Fusion APU technology makes it easy to construct a small home PC that pack big media-processing power, but require only a minuscule amount of your green. Here's how you can build one. |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003 |
Michael Dell, Dell At age 38, Michael S. Dell is the master of electronic business. Now he's carrying his network magic to the next level. At a time when many tech companies are paring costs, Dell is piling on new manufacturing supply-chain technology. |
PC World
December 2003
Richard Baguley |
DVD Burners: The New Optical Choice Rewritable DVD drives are fast replacing CD-RW models as the optical drives of choice. They offer a fast, cheap, and convenient way to store large amounts of data, and they let you burn your own movies or recorded TV programs to DVD to be watched on a standard DVD player. |
PC World
September 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Build Your Own PC Save money and craft a system that exactly matches your needs... |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004 |
Know Your Storage Technologies Direct-attached storage (DAS) Storage connected directly to a server. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Accessing RAID 1 Hard Drives Differentiating between hard drives and verifying data is backed up correctly. |
