Essays Tagged: "hard drive"

Electronic Monitoring Vs. Health Concerns

commonly in the form of phone monitoring, E-mail searches, and searching through the files on their hard drive (Paranoid 435). A poll by MacWorld states that over twenty-one percent of all employees a ...

(2 pages) 83 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Meet Mr. Computer, tyoical use of a computer

? I am sure you would have, if you were familiar with the new 16xCD-ROMand extra wide SCSI-2 9.0 GB hard drive it features, or if you knew aboutthe dual 225 MHz Pentium pro MMX chips blazing up its pe ... t of software.Software is a set of instructions to the C.P.U. from a source such as afloppy disk, a hard drive or a CD - ROM drive, in zillions of 1's and 0's.Each of these tiny little instructions ma ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.9 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

In the Name of Malace or for Business. A look into computer virus

as insidious and destructive, and come in a vast variety of strains. A computer virus tears up your hard drive and brings down your network. However, computer viruses are almost always curable diagno ...

(3 pages) 58 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

How to buy a computer

ically savvy enough to make an informed decision on the best processor to buy, the right size for a hard drive, or how much memory he or she really needs. Just because buying a computer can be confusi ... ocal computer store, and look at the software that's available. Most programs explain their minimum hardware requirements right on the box. After looking at a few packages, it should be pretty clear t ...

(6 pages) 161 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

this is an essay that describes the music industry and its foes the MP3.

ze that easily transmitted over the Internet." (Haring). Audio tracks from CD's can be recoded on a hard drive or a CD and be played as any times without the quality fading. You can download MP3 playe ... er the past ten years. A computer with a Pentium III processor, with 64mb of ram and 4 gigabytes of hard drive, roughly costs nearly $2,000.00, in 1999. The same computer now runs for an average of on ...

(12 pages) 450 1 3.1 Jun/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

How to Format Your Hard Drive I had the assignment in my English 101 class to write a process essay or an instructional essay. This is an instructional essay.

How to Format Your Hard DriveAre you tired of freezing? Fed up with waiting until the cows come home for your computer ... . The startup disk is a disk that was made especially for your computer. It tells the computer what hardware it has and which type of operating system is going to be installed. The operating system di ... ot want to lose. When you have finished saving, take a deep breath.Now you are ready to format your hard drive. The next two steps scare most people. Do not worry; if you have saved all the informatio ...

(4 pages) 235 0 3.3 Oct/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Mainframes vs PC's.

ut by a third-party under strict, multi-million dollar contracts. A typical PC will have one or two hard drives, with 40 Gigabytes of hard drive space each, and 256 to 512 MB of RAM.Mainframes on the ... drive space each, and 256 to 512 MB of RAM.Mainframes on the other hand, can come with hundreds of hard drives in a sophisticated RAID array with 30+ Terabytes of storage capacity andtypically Mainfr ...

(5 pages) 161 1 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Various Levels and Types of RAID.

cription of RAID and discuss various aspects of RAID. This will include the various levels of RAID, Hardware RAID, Software RAID, and the advantages and disadvantages associated with utilizing RAID.RA ... ks, often 32K or 64K in size, although different sizes can be used. Each chunk is then written to a hard drive in RAID according to the RAID level used. When the data is to be read, the process is rev ...

(4 pages) 89 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Computer Purchase Case Study.

ds, modem, 15-inch monitor, a mouse, a large software bundle, which included Windows 95, and a 1 GB hard drive. We also bought a Hewlett Packer printer with this package. The cost of this package was ... X CPU chip, speed Pentium P-4 at 2.0 GHz_X RAM size 512 MB SDRAM_X Expansion Slots: __1____DRIVES:X Hard drive size: 40 GB EIDE 7200 RPM_X Floppy disk drive_X CD ROM drive speed: __48X_X CD ROM Read/w ...

(4 pages) 214 7 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

This is an instructional essay on formatting your hard drive. There were a few graphics that were supposed to go with it. This is for a technical writing class, ENG120

repair, I received it back in worse condition that I had sent it in. I had sent it in with a busted hard drive and when I received it back, the computer wouldn't even turn on and this was worked on my ... that was made especially for your computer, the brand, style, and model. It tells the computer what hardware it has and which type of operating system is going to be installed. I find the most popular ...

(4 pages) 38 0 2.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

A Digital Armageddon

tograph, HTML coding or a computer graphic that can be set on paper, recorded on tape or saved to a hard drive, it may be protected. Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Updating of the Backup System

it may be possible to retrieve the data, a data recovery specialist may still be needed to fix the hard drive.Either way, data is never completely lost after a computer crash. It may be inaccessible, ... ilable and decided that it would be worthwhile to upgrade, not only considering the improvements in hardware and software features, but also the man-hours the new system was going to save.Our first co ...

(5 pages) 112 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

RAID: explained

omputer storage system that involves combining a number of small capacity (small amount of storage) hard drives, into an array, with better performance results than a single large capacity hard drive. ...

(1 pages) 44 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (more commonly known as a RAIN array)

dant Array of Independent Disks (more commonly known as a RAIN array) is a system of using multiple hard drives is a system for sharing or replicating data among the drivesThe basic idea behind RAID i ... ks, often 32K or 64K in size, although different sizes can be used. Each chunk is then written to a hard drive in RAID according to the RAID level used. When the data is to be read, the process is rev ...

(11 pages) 76 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Compare/contrast essay. perfect for speeches

eliability and basic TCP/IP networking are the two that come to mind. Also, Linux requires far less hardware; it displaces less hard drive space and uses up less memory. But if you'll flip the coin ov ... 've probably run into the problem that your Linux distro either wasn't able to detect some piece of hardware or wasn't able to assign a workable driver into it. What's more, you may find that it only ...

(2 pages) 61 1 3.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Apple and the Mac

stead of Intel ones) It required 1 megabyte of memory (a lot at the time) It needed a hard drive (unusual for the time).Factors which removed The Lisa from the market It was expen ...

(6 pages) 119 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Process - How To Build A Pc

rom it.When starting a task like building a computer you will need to purchase need parts. There is hardware needed and some software. Hardware is any part of the computer that you can physically touc ... u can physically touch whereas, software you cannot like a disc would be software. Let's start with hardware. There is a base of seven key components inside a computer; Motherboard, RAM, Hard drive, P ...

(3 pages) 36 1 3.7 Feb/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Computers and the Internet.

The world today is dominated by the computer. Fourth graders use the words "modem", "hard drive", "byte", and "PC" in their normal, everyday vocabulary. Sixth graders speak of "e-mail" ... true self while on their computer and think it's the greatest invention in the world, while others hardly use their computers at all and think the machine is a poison to today's society.The problem w ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.3 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Write an newspaper report on "Maintaining your computer" and it's value to us.

oftware on your PC, The installation software (installer) generally writes on a random part of your Hard Disk . When you execute the program, Windows spends time looking for it on the Hard Drive. The ... click on Disk Defragmenter. You will see towards the top of the screen, a list of all your physical Hard Drives. Select the System drive, ie: the one that has Windows installed on it. Then click on De ...

(2 pages) 18 0 4.3 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

Threatening Bugs.

Jack walked through the door after a long hard day at work. He went straight to his computer and sat down, as his seminar would soon start in ... is problem; after all he is pursuing a degree in Information Technology. As he went through his own hard drive in his brain he came across all of the things he knew about network security that might h ...

(4 pages) 40 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking