Hard Drive Guide - By: See2learn.com

Hard Drive

Below you will find Hard Drive Resources

Hard Drive Guide

Hard Drive Guide - Hard Drive Overview, a tour of the different types of Hard Drive's, and steps to installing and configuring Hard Drives.

Hard Drive Manufacturer List

Fujitsu - Fujitsu Hard Disk Drives

Hewlett Packard - Hewlett packard services support solutions disk drives systems products internet,hp business computing

IBM - IBM invented the disk drive and is the world leader in storage technology. We offer the industry's most complete line of storage products, from the one-inch microdrive for consumer electronics to the Enterprise Storage Server for the most demanding environments.

Maxtor - Maxtor hard drives and information storage products. From their hard drive and hard disk products to their new network attached storage appliance, Maxtor hard drives and the MaxAttach are a creative solution for information storage.

NEC - Nec product solutions

Quantum - There are many exciting things happening at Quantum, as we build on our leadership in data protection and network storage systems to provide a more comprehensive set of storage solutions to customers from the workgroup to the data center.

Samsung - Samsung electronics usa. official website for all your samsung support and service issues.

Seagate - Seagate Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of technology and products enabling people to store, access, and manage information. The Company is committed to providing best-in-class products to help people get information when, where and how they want it. Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, an innovator in tape drives, and a leading developer of Business Intelligence software.

Western Digital - Western Digital Online Store

Installation Notes

There are several things to be aware of when installing an ATA/66 or ATA/100 hard drive:

If your motherboard supports this feature, you will find that the Primary IDE connector on the motherboard is blue. Simply line the 80 pin ribbon and plug it into the motherboard here.

A 40 pin, 80 conductor cable will have black connector on one end, a blue connector on the other end, and a gray connector in the middle.

Also, the ribbon will have a notch in it.

Ultra ATA/66 is backwards compatible with all Ultra ATA/33 systems, but

If you use ATA/66 in an ATA/33 configuration, the speed will be limited to ATA/33.

It is also recommended that you install ATA/33 drives on the Secondary IDE channel. If you place an ATA/33 on the same IDE channel as an ATA/66 drive, performance will be greatly reduced.

Other Resources

Toms Hardware Page - Tom's Hardware Guide: Hard Drive Guide...

Chipmerchant - The Chip Merchant, Inc. - A complete line of computer hardware combined with a knowledgeable staff makes us your best source for components to build or upgrade your computer.