2009 Build Your Own PC Components: Hard Drives

This lesson is part of the series: 2009 Build Your Own PC: Internal Components, 2009 Build Your Own PC: Components, Install, Setup

Overview:
In this lesson, we'll cover SATA, IDE, external and SSD hard drives, what features and specs to look for when shopping, and how much you can expect to pay when building your own computer. Whether your are building your first gaming PC yourself, a budget computer, or just interested in learning what goes into a computer these lessons will help you get there.

The hard drive is where all information is stored on your computer. Be it the Windows operating system, programs you install, or files you download and create on the computer. Everything is stored on the hard drive.

When selecting a hard drive to install into your computer there are two basic features you need to consider. They are the capacity and the speed of the drive.

This lesson is part of a comprehensive series of lessons created by Home PC Builder that will guide you through the process of building your computer (from the selection internal and external components through installation and setup).

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The other lessons in this Internal Component series are:
Pt 1/10: Hard Drives - This Lesson
Pt 2/10: DVD/Blu-Ray - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1515
Pt 3/10: Memory/RAM - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1513
Pt 4/10: Video Card - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1531
Pt 5/10: Sound Card - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1532
Pt 6/10: Modem, Ethernet, Wireless - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1504
Pt 7/10: Processor/CPU - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1516
Pt 8/10: Motherboard - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1517
Pt 9/10: Case & PSU - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1527
Pt 10/10: Cooling - http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1544

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This hard drive component lesson covers

*Hard Drive Capacity
*Definitions of Gigabyte and Terabyte
*Examples of how much many files you can fit on a drive
*The minimum capacity to look for when buying

Hard Drive Speed:
*Definitions of RPM speed and drive cache
*What revolution speed and cache size to look for when buying

Solid State Drives:
*What makes a drive solid state
*Advantages and disadvantage of SSD

Hard Drive Interfaces:
*Covers SATA and IDE, which is better and versions to look for when buying

RAID:
*What is RAID
*Covers the three most popular RAID types, their advantages and disadvantages

External Hard drives
*Covers the different ways of connecting an external drive to your computer.

The video ends with a summary of features and specifications to look for when buying.

In the installation lessons we’ll go over how to configure and install your hard drive or drives (http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1542) in your computer.

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Hello everyone my name is Michael Cooper & I have been in the computer industry for over 12 years. For the past 5 years I have been making instructional videos showing the average computer user how to build their own computer.

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