USB flash drives provide users with an enormous level of satisfaction and accessibility due to their massive storage capacities, low cost, and small size. USB flash drives serve an important role in our society and have a precedence over other means of data transportation. Where as computers used to have floppy disk drives as well as USB ports, the majority of modern computers now only have USB ports, eliminating the use of floppy disks entirely. USB flash drives are basically small external hard drives that don’t require an external power Read More

ATA (AT Attachment) is the primary standard for connecting storage to PC’s. ATA replaced earlier technologies such as MFM, RLL, and ESDI. ATA is currently SCSI‘s major competitor. ATA is a specification for attaching hard drives to the AT bus. The AT specification has been extended to include other storage, such as CD/DVD drives, tape drives, and Zip drives with the Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) additions to the specification. It is also known as IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics). Parallel ATA Cables Parallel ATA cables originally had 40 wires. With the introduction Read More

Computer wire connections have been redefined and reset with the emergence of the universal serial bus or USB. Nowadays, almost all modern computers are equipped with USB terminals. Consumers or new computer buyers should always make sure that the personal computer units they will be purchasing have USB terminals. That is because almost all wires and memory storage gadgets that must be plugged into the PC have USB capabilities. The SCSI or small computer system interface wiring systems are not yet obsolete but most computer users simply prefer the USB Read More

File and disk fragmentation usually causes problems in large networked companies where many people simultaneously save, retrieve and delete their work on a company’s servers. In an ideal scenario, people will be ‘lining up’ to use the company’s servers, allowing data management (especially storage and retrieval) to proceed in an orderly, logical, and sequential manner. In reality, people are working simultaneously. This results in pieces of data being stored on servers in a seemingly random manner, ending up in data fragmentation. The scale of fragmentation is such that even small Read More

PATA is an abbreviation for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment. It is a regular interface that is used within PCs to connect all kinds of storage devices like hard disks, CD or DVD drives and solid state disks to the motherboard. The PATA interface connector is made up of thirty four pins and is connected to a ribbon-like flat cable nearly two inches broad. It does not support hot swapping. PATA was earlier known as just Advanced Technology Attachment. But with the introduction of SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) a few Read More