Drivers - Hard Drive
Hard Drive by Company |
- 3ware Inc
- ACard Technology Corp
- Acer Labs Incorporated (ALi)
- Adaptec
- Advanced System Products (AdvanSys)
- AdvanSys
- AGFA-Gevaert NV
- American Megatrends Inc
- Aralion Inc
- ATI Technologies Inc
- Benq Corp
- D-Link Inc
- Dell Computer Corp
- DTC Technology Corp
- Dura Micro Inc (Acomdata)
- ENE Technology Inc
- Future Domain Corp
- Hewlett Packard
- Highpoint Technologies Inc
- IBM
- Initio Corp
- Integrated Technology Express (ITE) Inc
- Intel Corporation
- JMTek LLC
- LSI Logic
- Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)
- Microdia
- Microtek International Inc
- Mustek Systems Inc
- NVidia Corp
- Pacific Digital Corp
- Promise Technology Inc
- Qlogic
- Seiko Epson Corp
- ServerWorks (Was: Reliance Computer Corp)
- Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)
- Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)
- Tekram Technology Corp Ltd
- VIA Technologies Inc
- Workbit Corp
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Hard Drive Information
In a personal computer, a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) is the device that stores the information used in the PC. This includes the Operating System, applications, system files, and documents and media files. The Hard Disk Drive is often shortened to just "Hard Drive" or "Hard Disk". The hard drive contains a number of platters(disks) which spin. An arm with a magnetic reader/writer swings back and forth across the disk to access the necessary data as it is requested.
HDD storage is measured by the manufacturer in Gigabytes (1 Billion Bytes). Most operating systems measure the size of the drive in Gibibytes (1,073,741,824 bytes), which explains why some of the drive space seems to be "lost" once the drive is actually installed. ATA is the most common drive interface for home PCs, with the older parallel-ATA, also known as IDE, ATAPI, EIDE, or UDMA are being phased out by the newer Serial ATA (SATA), which is faster, and has conveniently smaller connection cables.