For the most part your optical drive bay, where you put your cd into the computer, is used for the delivery of information to your computer. A lot of the time you can get data (music, movies, information) onto your computer via USB thumb drive or downloaded form the internet. However, for larger amounts of data such as High Definition Video and… Read more →
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The difference between standard hard drives and Solid States
If you have been using computers for years, the chances are you have been using just a normal standard Hard Disk Drive (HDD). And although the hdd’s have improved a lot over the years with speed, size and reliability they are no where near as fast as the new Solid State Drives (SSD’s). What is a hard drive? A… Read more →
The difference between memory and storage
I often hear my customers tell me they think they need more memory. Their hard drives are full of music, videos, photos and documents and as a result their computer is running really slow and hence the need for more memory. However, there is a big difference between memory on your computer and hard drive storage space. Although the two sound quite… Read more →