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Topic: Hard Drive

Related:
  Hard    Drive  
  Hard Disk Drive    Hard Drive Image  
  Install hard drive    Copy to Hard Drive  
  Backup my hard drive    IDE Hard Drive  
  SCSI hard drives    IBM Hard Drive  
  Hard Times    Partition your hard drive  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Steve Jobs,  Bill Gates
Favorite possession(s):Windows computer,  Apple Computer,  Linux box
Currently has on their coffee table:Mac Today,  PC World
Favorite body part(s):Ears
Favorite food(s):Cookies
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Interest(s):Computers
Favorite computer game(s):Myst,  X-Wing,  Hacking
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading MP3's,  Chatting on ICQ,  Finding warez
Favorite quote(s):"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
 
 
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Angela Berkley,
High School Student

Snow drives down hard from the sky onto the torch of LADY LIBERTY Heavy breathing.
Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

There are now hard drives that are less than 2 inches square that can hold large ammounts of data.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Most hard drives still perform a recalibration of the heads to the drive platters, to compensate for the platter expansion and contraction due to the changes in temperature inside the drive.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Kenny drives hard with his heart and full of passion.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Hard drives are subjected to high level formatting, to remove any remaining data left by the previous owners - an important security issue.
Shared hard-drives coupled with search lead to copyright infringement.
Dual hard drives for redundancy.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

IDE hard drives are cheaper than SCSI drives, but IDE is generally slower than SCSI and does not support or re-mapping.
Hard drives and SCSI/IDE controllers can both contain simple CPUs and cache RAM.
Storage is spread across multiple Ultra 160 SCSI hard disk drives using Adaptec RAID controllers.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

He drives hard and soars aloft doing the seeming impossible.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Old hard drives have stories to tell So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of?
 
 
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