Computer Storage

Usage 

Just like you can do certain activities in order to prolong the life of your computer battery, you can do some steps in order to prolong the use of the hard drive that you have inserted in your computer, no matter if we are speaking about a laptop computer or about a desktop. In fact, you can do this even with your smartphones and tablet computers, that have a hard drive or a solid-state drive. The internal memories of the tablet computers, which usually do not use a hard disk drive, can benefit of the same steps if you want to prolong the use of the internal memory.

I have discovered on the Internet several ways of maximizing your storage usage. Fortunately, many of the things that I have read in that article were familiar to me and I have used them before knowing that this is in fact a way of prolonging the use of my hard drive. I know that from time to time you have to clean your hard drive from unnecessary files and documents. In fact, if the operating system is set to announce you when you have unused icons on your desktop or if it is set to take to the garbage or in other words to the Recycle Bin of your computer the documents that you haven't accessed in 2 or 3 years let's say, you will benefit of the advantages of storing your information in a good way, simply by running that type of operating system. Some other systems require the user to take the final decision of deleting those documents that were not accessed in many years, but most of them delete them without announcing the user.

Nevertheless, when you click on deleting the files or documents that you haven't accessed in years, you can see what are those files and documents and you can even open them to see what is their content. Also, when you want to store files it would be preferable not to create thousands of folders where you will store only one Word file. When you want to access something quickly, it is true, you can create a shortcut of that document directly on the desktop, but would not be better to create a folder where you can store your personal and most important information, folder that can be accessed in 2 or 3 moves?

Another way to benefit of your hard drive for a long time would be to take good care of your computer and not to use it in locations with extreme temperatures or where it is very much dust. The high humidity and the dusty locations are the deadliest enemies of the electronics. From time to time, just like you clean your hard drive from unnecessary files, it would be good to clean your computer from dust. Don't do this by yourself, because you can touch some important electronic circuits that are not supposed to be touched, but instead see a specialist.

Measurement

The computer storage of a laptop computer or of a desktop computer (it doesn't matter) is represented by the hard drive or by the solid-state drive. But the information that are stored in here must have a limit. In this way, you cannot store in your computer more than 20 videos, let's say, or more than 100 photos. Of course these examples are only made to show you that you can store information on a hard drive or solid-state drive but only if you take into consideration certain limits.

The information that can be stored in a computer is measured by bites. Then we have megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes. Today I would like to speak with you about the hard drive created by Seagate which is named Barracuda. I'm talking about the Barracuda green hard drive that allows you to save your time. The leading performance provided by Seagate combined with the SmartAlign technology deliver you a green product that is created to enhance your productivity.

Let's present the technical specifications of the Barracuda green SATA 2 TB hard drive. I'm sure that you are accustomed to see the technical specifications of a notebook computer more than seeing the specifications of the component that is inserted in that notebook. Well today, we are going to change that and present the details of a hard drive, in this way you will understand better what happens inside your hard drive and how hard drive actually works, because if you understand the components that create the hard drive and how the hard drive actually stores information, you will be able to understand better the functionality of this internal part of every computer.

I will review the model number ST2000DL003. The interface of this product is SATA 6 GB/s. The cache of the product is of 64 MB. The capacity is as I have said before of 2 TB. The areal density is 422 GB/in2. Now let's present the physical dimensions. On the site of the manufacturer they are presented in millimeters and in inches as well. I would present only the millimeters versions: the height of the Barracuda green product is up 26.1 mm, the width of 101.6 mm and the last is of 147.00 mm. The weight of the product is of 635g. Now let's present more information about the performance of this product. I will start with the spin speed, which is by default presented in rotations per minute or revolutions per minute and which in our case is of 5900 RPM. The sustained data transfer rate is 144 MB/s. The average latency is of 5.08 ms, the random read seek time is of 12 ms and the random write seek time is of 13 ms. I don't know if these technical details mean anything to you, but they definitely mean something to professionals. I will come back with more information related to the hard drives created by Seagate, because I see them as being some of the best in the whole world.

Desktop

A desktop computers storage is represented by the hard drive or recently by the solid-state drive. The solid-state drive allows you to store more information in a lower amount of GB. For example, you can buy a desktop computer that has 500 GB of solid-state drive where you will be able to store much more photos and videos than on a 500 GB hard disk drive desktop computer.

Today I have entered Seagate.com, the site of a very well known hard disk drive manufacturer. I will try to present the information related to the hard drives that this company creates. Among their services that are for home, for business and for enterprises, we can name the external storage devices, internal storage devices, home entertainment products, network attached storage, different services and accessories. I will enter the desktop storage category or subcategory (this is in fact a subcategory of the main category which is named For Business). And here we can find three types of Barracuda hard drives. I would like to make a compare is on between them, because this is how the manufacturer itself proceeds.

As long as you have a powerful desktop computer, why not get the best in terms of hard drives for your computer? The first type of Barracuda hard drive is the XT hard drive which has the capacity between 2 TB and 3 TB, the spin speed is of 7200 revolutions per minute, the drive size is of 3.5 and the interface is made using the SATA technology with 6 GB per second. What else can we say about this XT hard drive created by Seagate? I am pretty sure that you are interested in the annual failure rate of this product, which in our case is of 0.34% and in the amount of cache used by this product. This last feature is of 64 MB. Now let's present another Barracuda hard drive, which is most likely more affordable than the first one, because the storage capacity is from 160 GB to 1 TB. The speed of this hard drive is the same as in the previous case and the drive size exactly the same. The interface is just like the first and the annual failure rate, the same. The only thing that is different between this type of hard drive and the first one, which is destined mostly for professionals (no wonder this Seagate XT hard drive is included in the business category) is the fact that the cache has 8 MB, 16 MB and 32 MB in the case of this second type of hard drive.

And now last but not least I want to present the Barracuda green hard drives, which allow you to store information from 1.5 TB to 2 TB. The speed of the hard drive is of 5900 revolutions per minute and the cache of 64 MB. The rest of the characteristics are the same as the features presented earlier.

Computer Printer Storage Tables

If you don't have a laptop and instead you use a desktop computer, most likely you also have a desk where you can place the computer monitor and at the same time below, you place the central processing units as well.

In this situation, you can also place on the desk some peripherals, such as a printer and a scanner.

If you use a laptop and you don't have a place to put the laptop and you simply move with it from a room to a room or from work to house (after all, this is a portable device), you need a printer table, because this is one of the peripherals that you have to have in your house. Not mentioning that some of the printers allow you to scan and copy at the same time, being multifunctional devices. So you don't need another peripheral, like a scanner. On Amazon, I have found many computer printer tables, made of natural wood. The first one is a Grant Alliance Mission-Style File Cart sold along with the computer printer table. I cannot understand why the manufacturer made this combination, but I can see that the furniture looks pretty good. The price of this item is of $59.99. The next product costs $59 and it is a Winsome Wood Printer Stand, that comes with the drawer and a shelf. Even though this item does not come along with the file cart, it costs almost the same like the previous product which cost one dollar more.

You can place your printer on an adjustable monitor stand, only that you will replace the monitor with the printer. I like very much the fact that the stand is very low, it almost hits the ground. The price for such stand is of $24.99. An even cheaper product can be found from Allsop; I am talking about a monitor stand, which comes along with that of the computer monitor obviously, and which is sold for $18.53. Like in the case of the previous model, you can replace the monitor with the printer. As long as you want to buy a color laser printer, which is usually a heavy item, you will not be able to use a piece of furniture. You can simply place the printer in one part or another of the room and you will consider the printer as being a part of the furniture that you have in your house or at the headquarters of your company. I personally like very much the Furinno home laptop notebook computer desk stable, which is easy to assemble. Instead of placing the notebook computer on that desk, you can simply place your printer. I like it more because it uses the light cherry finish. The price of such product is of $27.99. If you use cabinets in order to store your computer storage information, on that cabinet, if it is not too high, you can place your printer. Once again, I refer only to the home printers, which are usually inkjets printers, not laser printers.

Computer Storage Rack

When you say computer storage, you don't necessarily refer to the hard drive that is stored in your computer or to a solid-state drive. You can also refer to the CDs or DVDs that contain information taken from your computer or directly from the Internet.

At the same time there are some external hard drives and solid-state drives, that cannot be considered CDs or DVDs, they are another form of storing information, a storing method that does not interfere with the hard drive that is already installed in the computer when you buy it.

Between the computer storage equipments, we can name the racks, cabinets, enclosures and other type of computer storage medium. You can use for example variousboxes, where you keep shoes or other type of electronics, just make sure that you don't store the shoes and the external hard drive for example in the same box. If you want the information to be protected, you can set a username and password that should be provided when you start to use the external hard drive or the CD and at the same time you can place a lock in the place the rack or the cabinet is located. In this way, you will protect the information that is stored in the computer storage device, in 2 ways. On the site named cableorganizer.com, I have found many products that allow you to store your information. Today we don't actually use these, because now we have the Cloud. We can store our information online, and set as well a username and password in order to access it. If this allows us to not to use another computer storage box or a rack, then we shall choose the most appropriate solution for us. I personally prefer to use the services offered by the Cloud and I do not store my information on CDs or DVDs. I don't have an external hard drive, because I knew even from the start that I will not need a device like this.

Some of the boxes or cabinets that can be found on this site and in general, that can be found all over the Internet, allow the user to connect the external hard drive to a wall power source, directly from the cabinet within which it is placed. On this site, you can find floor open racks, ladder racks, modular server racks, portable cabinets, wall mount outdoor cabinets, swing out frame racks, wall mount enclosures, fiber optic enclosures, seismic enclosure, sound and security enclosure and networking enclosure. There can be found many others on cableorganizer.com, but I prefer to let you enter the site and discover these are yourself. If you are creative and likes to use wood and other materials and if you have the necessary tools, you can create different panels and shelves that will allow you to store your information. The CDs and DVDs do not necessarily need to be placed in boxes, where the sunlight does not reach. Of course, they need to be protected from dust, from humidity, from extreme temperatures, but this does not mean that you have to keep the storage devices isolated.