im some what confused?

Question

as to what a hard drive is some people have said

it is trying to get home in heavy traffic

is this true

Answer 1

Ya that is definitely a good guess!
That is about like one of the other questions I was on previously.
A lady ask if she could speed up her computer and someone answered, throw it in the front seat and head out on the free way fast as you can .

Answer 2

A Hard Drive (also known as Hard Disk Drive (HDD) ) is a spindle of disks contained withing an air tight box, located in your PC tower (or desktop), which all your data is retained.

Like a rightable record player, an arm skims above the disks to read and write data to and from it magnetacally. and the head of the arm which reads the data from the disk, hovers less then the width of a human hair above the spinning disks.

This is also where all your software is contained, as well as the Operating system itself (i.e. XP). So when your HDD starts up, the files required to construct the operating system are loaded into the rest of the PC, then your data and software is accessable to you from the pretty interface given by XP.

HDD's are great because they can retain data when the power to your PC is switched off at a relativly cheeper price per MegaByte than other Media (such as Flash Menory) and can store large amounts of data.

But not so great as they are the slower than the rest of your PC components (Such as a super fast Processor), but are the origin of your systems Operating system files - meaning that the Operating System files must be first read from the slow hard drive, before they can be used by the rest of the super fast PC. And this is whats known as a bottle neck in the PC.

Files leave the HDD (Slow) > go into your PC's Memory/RAM (Faster) > Then are processed by the processor (Even Faster) > Then you use them (i.e. a Word Document)

HDD's speeds are measured in 2 basic ways
1) How fast they spin (4200rpm, 5400rpm, 7200rpm, 10000rpm)
2) How fast the data can get from the HDD to the rest of the PC down the cable it connects to (Standard home PC's):

100MB p/s=ATA100\IDE connections
133MB p/s=ATA133/IDE connections
150MB p/s=SATA150/ SATA connections
300MB p/s=SATA II /SATA connections

So the faster you can get the data off the disk and to the rest of the system, the better.

hope that helps!

Answer 3

Hard drive is a computer term for the box which stores your computer history. Contrary to some interpretations, it is not a traffic jam, a manhood or anything else which springs to that mucky mind of yours. Hope that helped.

Answer 4

Not at all. A hard drive is a computer component. It is where all of your data, such as documents and pictures, is stored. Everything on your computer is stored and saved inside your hard drive. It is located inside your computer tower, above the CD drive.