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by MATEUS_27:24&25

Question by : As of today, what kind of computers come with solid state drives.?
SSDs are beginning to appear on which type of PCs? Low-end, midstream, or high-end? Thanks!

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Answer by OzoneGuy
Low end, and / or low power usage.

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by marsmet522

Question by epic_laydown: Are internal disk drives usually located at the base of of desktop towers?
the base, meaning on the bottom….thanks.

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Answer by the truth
Could be anywhere. front,middle,laying down,standing upright.

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by gugek

Question by hippie chick: usb flash drives and switching them between a mac and a pc??
i have a small portable usb drive that i bought for school work. i mostly use it on the pcs at school but i have a macbook at home and am wondering if i can use it on my macbook? i lost the paperwork so i figured somebody out there might know. thanks!

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Answer by Shallow End
Yes they are universal

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by The Man in Blue

Question by C L: Why are External Hard Drives cheaper than Internal Hard Drives now?
I have seen several 1TB external hard drives with 7200 rpm for under $ 80 whereas a comparable internal hard drive is well over $ 100-$ 200. Usually the reasoning is the rpm is so low (normally around 5400), but that doesn’t seem to be the case. You can always just take the HDD out of the external casing and use it as internal, just wondering why the disparity? It used the be the other way around.

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Answer by Colin Garrard
It is like everything when you have sold all you can the price has to drop

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by molotalk

Question by : Are external hard drives basically big USB flash drives?
Do they transfer data from and to the computer the same way USB flash drives do, and do they do this with similar transfer speeds, or virtually no difference if any.

Also, if I have video files in the external hard drive, can I watch them from there by connecting it to the computer without actually transferring the files, like a CD/DVD?

I don’t have an external hard drive yet so that’s why I’m asking.

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Answer by Welcome to my nightmare
No, they are hard drives, the same as your “C” drive in your desktop, but in an enclosure and (usually) powered by a separate line. And yes, they show up in Windows Explorer as an external drive…you can watch movies, listen to music, do the same as you can on your main drive.

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by pixel_mason

Question by Jack: My optical drives are not showing in Windows 7?
How can I fix this? they were showing when I first got windows 7 last week but since yesterday they disappeared :[

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Answer by Computertek – Orillia
Glitches, hiccups and burps – is what a new operating system from microsoft is all about.

Ensure that you’ve received all updates. Go to the Windows 7 page and report your issue – this OS is a Release Candidiate not the actually final release of the OS.

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by Thomas Hawk

Question by : Just a short question about external hard drives?
I’m just curious. I know for a fact. External hard drives won’t last forever. If an external hard drive breaks or fail or not working anymore. Can you still retrieve all of the data you have back up in that hard drive? Do you go to a specialist or something to collect all your data and you can put it to your new one perhaps? or all is lost.

Thank you in advance. I just want to know more.

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Answer by EvilShadow 1010011010
Recovery of data from a broken drive is possible … but .. usually expensive … u can give it up to a hardware service station to get the files recovered …. but unless the files are REALLLY important i wouldnt recommend it …because .. even if u manage to recover the files.. they may get corrupt.

there are some applications available for this purpose too … again these are expensive to buy …. and … i wouldnt count on recovering files …. its expensive …and the results are not too good.

Your best option is to create a backup of the drive!

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by Vee Dub

Question by C: Do Lenovo IdeaPads work with Samsung dvd drives?
I am going to get a Lenovo Ideapad S10 but I wanted to know if they are compatible with Samsung external optical cd/dvd drives?

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Answer by Colanth
Yes. A computer with a USB port is compatible with a USB drive. The make of the computer and the make of the drive have nothing to do with compatibility.

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by IntelFreePress

Question by Darth Revan: Do Solid State Drives (SSD) Have A Maximum Number Of Write Cycles?
I know with flash memory, there are a limited number of times that data can be written to it before it’s destroyed. Is this true about SSDs?

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Answer by Shane M
Yes it is. They use the same technology as flash memory and they can only be written to so many times. But in reality, any good SSD will have a write-cyle limit that will last a very long time. After all, even standard hard drives have a maximum number of write cycles, in effect, since they all fail eventually.

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by inju

Question by koji n: How long does a USB flash drives last before it gets unreliable?
1.44 MB floppy diskettes to me lasts only a week before Windows would say “the disk is not formatted, do you wanna format it” and “cyclic redundancy error”.

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Answer by yap_jp
As far as I know it’s about 5000 hours of usage before failure

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