Sentences with phrase «on mechanical hard drives»

We're focusing on mechanical hard drives here, which have a spinning platter and a head that moves to magnetically read the platter.

Immediately following this post I am going to delete Arkham Knight from my SSD (because it ran like shit on my mechanical hard drive) and never think about it again.

If you don't have enough space on your SSD, store your large media collection on a mechanical hard drive.

On a mechanical hard drive, defragmenting is beneficial because the drive's head has to move over the magnetic platter to read the data.

SSDs allow your computer to boot, multitask and launch app three to five times faster than on a mechanical hard drive.

You should be able to recreate a page file on another drive from here and Windows will move your virtual memory files to that drive, allowing you to reduce wear on a solid - state drive and put them on a mechanical hard drive, for example.

Most people plugging an external drive into those same laptops rely on a mechanical hard drive.

Not exact matches

In contrast, traditional hard drives read and write data by moving a mechanical arm to the appropriate region on a spinning platter (SN: 10/19/13, p. 28).

Hybrids brake electrically during mild braking and transition to mechanical on harder braking or when the propulsion battery is fully charged as occurs in extended down hill travel so a gentle test drive around town can obviously not reveal a brake problem.

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The Asus G11DF, on the other hand, ships with two hard drives — the aforementioned 256 GB SSD, and an auxiliary 1 TB mechanical hard drive.

On a laptop or desktop, your internal hard drives only need to be wiped if they're mechanical hard drives or hybrid hard drives.

On a Mac with a mechanical hard drive, boot into Recovery Mode and use the Disk Utility application to erase the hard drive before reinstalling OS X.

While we focused on traditional mechanical hard drives here, it's worth noting that a solid - state drive will be more reliable and less likely to fail than a mechanical hard drive in a desktop PC or laptop.

However, if you do have a mechanical hard drive and you've just put a lot of files on the drive — for example, copying a huge database or gigabytes of PC game files — those files might be defragmented because Windows hasn't gotten around to defragmenting them yet.

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For one, all the storage options rely on an Intel Rapid Hybrid system that is a mishmash of a relatively fast SSD for the OS, and a slower, mechanical hard disk drive for mass storage.

It's better than most other laptops with a mechanical hard drive, and on par with some desktops.

A Core i3 processor, 4 GB of RAM, a small mechanical hard drive, and so on.

My old mechanical hard drive has started grumbling loudly when I boot my desktop and it made me realize how important it is to get this code on «the cloud» so it can exist eternally.

The laptop's mechanical hard drive was the only drag on the score.

On a traditional mechanical hard disk drive, data is stored magnetically.

A solid state drive doesn't possess the same moving parts as a traditional, mechanical hard disk drive, which makes it a particularly good choice for an external drive that's going to spend its time in and out of luggage, and otherwise being used on the go.

I'd argue the only real sin is what they and most PC manufacturer's commit: trying to put in larger mechanical hard drives to justify the price, rather than spending that money on a SSD.