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July 2003
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Put Together a Custom PC Get the right components and assemble a system that's suitable for your needs and budget. |
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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. |
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June 2004
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How To Change A Hard Drive Adding hard-drive space for more storage. |
PC World
January 2004
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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. |
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September 2001
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Do-It-Yourself Dream Machines A step-by-step guide to the smartest upgrades, plus the ultimate PC project: building your own system... |
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September 2004
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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. |
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July 2001
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Hardware Tips: Find the Perfect Hard Disk for Your PC Choose the best hard drive for your PC, speed up monitor resets... |
PC World
January 2001
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The Mother(board) of All Upgrades Motherboard transplants rev up aging PCs... |
PC World
September 2003
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PC World
October 1, 2000
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Hassle-Free Backups Hard-drive capacities are bigger than ever. Your data is more valuable than ever. Thank goodness backing up is getting easier than ever. Here's a disaster-avoidance game plan. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
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Build Your Dream Machine Three step-by-step projects to transform your sluggish PC into a desktop powerhouse. |
PC World
October 2002
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Your System With a Motherboard Swap Insert a new motherboard to revitalize your PC. |
PC World
February 2003
Kirk Steers |
Tweak Your PC's BIOS Settings the Safe Way Update BIOS settings; get useful PC handbooks; clean a CD-RW drive safely; and a slow-down utility for old apps. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006 |
An Optical Drive Upgrade How to remove a CD-RW and install a CD-DVD unit. |
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January 2002
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Step-By-Step: Set Up a Network in a Snap Easy ways to set up a wired or wireless network... |
PC World
August 2003
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Take a Crash Course in Emergency PC Recovery Revive your PC after a crash; protect your data from drive failure with a RAID configuration. |
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August 2005
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Reinvent Your PC Ever feel like your system's being left behind by today's technology? Here's how to make any machine run faster, store a lot more data, and serve as your entertainment hub. |
PC World
March 1, 2000
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"Hello, Get Me Rewrite!" You put all-weather tires on your car. You use all-temperature laundry soap. Why can't you find all-purpose storage for your PC? Floppy drives are painfully small and snail slow. Zip drives are faster but far from universal, and the media isn't cheap. Optical drives are even more rare and expensive. But now, new CD-Rewritable drives combine affordability with enough speed and flexibility to qualify as a first-rate storage option. |
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January 2001
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Starving for Storage? Add a Second Hard Drive -- All It Takes Is One Screwdriver and Five Minutes... |
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March 2001
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Livin' Large We test the latest in jumbo drives to see which deliver the most speed, capacity, and ease of use for the money... |
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March 1, 2006 |
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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January 1, 2008
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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
August 2001
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Upgrade Guide: Keep It Powered, Keep It Cool Keep you upgraded PC fully powered and properly cooled, step-by-step... |
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April 23, 2001
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Remove Your (CD) Writer's Block Prevent disc-burning flameouts; find Windows answers a whisker away... |
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November 15, 2003
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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. |
PC World
June 2006
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Make Your Hard Drives Faster and Safer With RAID Choose the RAID configuration most appropriate for your needs... Avoid wrist pains caused by keyboard typing... Dusting your PC just got easier... |
PC World
June 2, 2008
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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. |
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August 2005
Mark McCall |
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PC World
December 2005
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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 World
August 23, 2006
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Best PC Upgrades The PC you need for tomorrow's tasks may be the one you own today after you upgrade its performance in one or more key areas. We show you how. |
PC World
December 2003
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Prime Drive Time Sleek, capacious hard disks are making a new place for themselves in the home and on the road. We look at what's here and what's next. |
PC World
August 2006
Steve Bass |
New Uses for Old Hard Drives Avoid the frustration of burning DVDs, and save money on long-term storage... Adjust audio with your mouse... |
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June 2005
Kirk Steers |
Plan Ahead to Keep Your Big Hard Drive Purring Prepare your computer for a new massive hard drive... Gizmo Power to Go... |
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July 13, 2004
Bill Howard |
Creating a Data Backup Server Enlist an old PC to back up your files. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
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A New DVD Burner You can reconfigure the master or slave designation when swapping optical drives. |
PC Magazine
April 13, 2007
Joel Santo Domingo |
HP Pocket Media Drive PD0800 The HP Pocket Media Drive PD800 is the cartridge-style hard drive you've been waiting for, particularly if you have an HP PC with a compatible drive bay. |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004 |
External Storage: Little Big Drives Backup has gotten personal: Small drives that match your lifestyle have changed the face of storage and backup. |
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
July 2006
Scott Mueller |
To Get Just the PC You Want, Build It Yourself You can construct your own fully equipped system for about the same amount of money as an off-the-shelf configuration. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2005
Henry Newman |
Why Tape Won't Die Issues such as cost, capacity, power, portability and bandwidth will ensure that tape continues to be a reasonable storage alternative to disk. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005 |
Upgrade: 35 Ways to Create Your Own Multimedia Desktop Helpful tips for improving desktop performance or purchasing a new one. |
PC World
November 19, 2001
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CD-RW Drive Bargains Continue Tough markets for vendors benefit buyers -- and other bonuses are ahead... |
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June 2004
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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. |
PC World
October 2003
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Is It Time to Upgrade to Rewritable DVD? Determine the right DVD format for you; make sense of speed ratings; lighten up on power adapters; install a keystroke logger. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2005
Anthony Verducci |
Build An External Hard Drive How to assemble an external hard drive for a lot less than buying a new one. |
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May 2002
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Protect Your Data and Settings on a Shared PC Share a PC without worrying about lost data or changed settings... |
