Free Windows Help Tutorials sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org /title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO 8859-1"> <META name="description" Content="Hundreds of downloadable Windows help tutorials, articles and how-to guides sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org."><style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#999999 vlink=blue link=blue> <span name = "INTRA" class="pg" style="top:0px; left:5px; width:714px; height:1010px"></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:0px; left:5px; height:1010px; width:714px' class='img'> <img src="pg0001im.png" height = "1010 width = "714" border="0"> </span> <span class='nav' style='left: 10px; top: 10px'><pre></pre></span><span name = "INTRA" style='top:108px; left:62px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Arial'>Understanding</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:165px; left:62px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Arial'>Drive Technology</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:267px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Disk</b></i> <i><b>drives</b></i> <i><b>have</b></i> <i><b>come</b></i> <i><b>a</b></i> <i><b>long</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:287px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>way</b></i> <i><b>since</b></i> <i><b>the</b></i> <i><b>first</b></i> <i><b>PCs</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:264px; left:247px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>A</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:267px; left:284px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>s the computer revolution continues, we find ourselves committing more</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:279px; left:284px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>and more information to the care of electronic systems. A vast amount of</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:292px; left:284px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>that information is purely transitory, and the benefits of ownership are often</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:305px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>questionable but, despite this, it is necessary that we store it. At present we are</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:308px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>shipped.</b></i> <i><b>We</b></i> <i><b>take</b></i> <i><b>an</b></i> <i><b>in depth</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:317px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>doubling the amount of information stored every couple of years according to the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:328px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>look</b></i> <i><b>at</b></i> <i><b>the</b></i> <i><b>development</b></i> <i><b>of</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:330px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>major analyst organisations. The problem of storage, retrieval and the fear of loss of</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:343px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>data have led us into a position where much of what is stored is duplicated. Rather</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:349px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>these</b></i> <i><b>drives,</b></i> <i><b>how</b></i> <i><b>they</b></i> <i><b>work,</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:355px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>than creating the paperless office, the increasingly widespread use of computers has</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:368px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>spawned the paper hungry office, as people insist on making copies of everything</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:369px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>and</b></i> <i><b>what</b></i> <i><b>you</b></i> <i><b>need</b></i> <i><b>to</b></i> <i><b>look</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:381px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>in case the computer crashes.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:390px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>out</b></i> <i><b>for</b></i> <i><b>when</b></i> <i><b>specifying</b></i> <i><b>them</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:401px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>This fear of data loss is based on the problems of early systems and the exaggerations</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:411px; left:62px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>for</b></i> <i><b>your</b></i> <i><b>users.</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:414px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>of those who had to deal with them. Despite the reliability of modern computer</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:427px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>systems, failures still occur, but mechanical failure represents an inordinately small</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:433px; left:62px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The first of a two part article.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:439px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>proportion of lost data. A much more important area of data loss is that caused by</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:452px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>malicious acts such as those perpetrated by virus writers, industrial sabotage,</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:463px; left:62px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>By Ian Murphy</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:465px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>random acts of electronic vandalism, disgruntled employees and badly written</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:479px; left:62px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>IT Journalist</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:478px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>programs. Even this category pales into insignificance when compared with the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:490px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>amount of data that is lost through stupidity, carelessness, and either poor training</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:503px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>or lack of it.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:523px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>The introduction of high level languages to make application development easier</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:536px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>has led to programs that have become increasingly disk hungry. There are several</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:549px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>reasons for this poor programming skills, bad programming tools, compilers that</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:561px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>only do minimal code optimisation, and use of graphical user interfaces with their</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:574px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>massive overhead. The average user requires almost 1 GB of disk space for their</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:587px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>operating system and office productivity applications before allowance is even</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:600px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>made for their data.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:620px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>On top of all this comes data gathered from the Internet, email, mailing list servers</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:633px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>and newsgroups. As organisations have allowed their users access to the Internet</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:645px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>for research purposes, they have been rocked by the amount of information that is</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:658px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>now being gathered. Many people still do not realise that, in order to view a Web</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:671px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>page, the entire contents of the page are downloaded into a temporary directory</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:684px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>before being displayed on your screen. In order to speed up access to Web pages</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:696px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>there are numerous applications that allow you to duplicate entire Web sites onto</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:709px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>local storage so that you can read information without incurring huge telephone</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:722px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>bills. Even where users have access to leased lines, these programs allow overnight</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:734px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>information gathering to take the stress away from day to day Internet access.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:761px; left:247px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Today's</b></i> <i><b>Needs</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:783px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>To allow us to capture and store all this information, disk drives have become</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:796px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>increasingly larger and faster, and virtually every computer sold today is equipped</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:809px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>with one. The current range of low end drives already exceed the capabilities of the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:821px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>high end drives from five years ago, yet storing so much information on a single</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:834px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>device requires an understanding of the capabilities of that device. Speed isn't</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:847px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>necessarily a good thing; nor is it the answer to every problem. Instead it's important</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:859px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>to evaluate the way your users need access to data and decide on the right disk</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:872px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>technology. In order to make that assessment you need an understanding not only</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:885px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>of older drive technologies, but also what is happening with current products and</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:897px; left:247px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'>their future development.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:950px; left:52px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Update 152:July 2001</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:943px; left:264px' class="ft5"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>PC</b> <b>Support</b> <b>Advisor</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:950px; left:612px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>File: B1047.1</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:962px; left:52px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>page 13</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:962px; left:518px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Buying and Evaluating:Hardware</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:967px; left:285px' class="ft6"><pre><font face='Helvetica'><b>www.pcsupportadvisor.com</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" class='nav' style='left: 357px; top: 1010px'><pre>Next page <a href='page0002.htm'>></a></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1050px; left:50px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial">New!</font><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial Narrow"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">The best sites for quality <a href="http://www.inkjet-printer-cartridges.org">inkjet printer cartridges</a> and the best sites for <a href="http://www.cheap-inkjet-cartridges.com">cheap inkjet cartridges</a></font></b></pre></span></body> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1100px; left:300px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial"><a href="../index.html">Windows Help Desk Home</a> </font></b></pre></span></body></html>