what is the purpose of storage device?
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(m)\n\nThe fundamental components of a general-purpose computer are arithmetic and logic unit, control circuitry, storage space, and input/output devices. If storage was removed, the device we had would be a simple calculator instead of a computer. The ability to store instructions that form a computer program, and the information that the instructions manipulate is what makes stored program architecture computers versatile.\n\nDigital computer represents all information using the binary numeral system. Text, numbers, pictures, audio, and nearly any other form of information can be converted into a string of bits, or binary digits, each of which has a value of 1 or 0. A piece of information can be manipulated by any computer whose storage space is large enough to accommodate the corresponding data, or the binary representation of the piece of information. For example, a computer with a storage space of eight million bits, or one megabyte, could be used to edit a small novel.\n\n \nVarious forms of storage, divided according to their distance from the central processing unit.Various forms of storage, based on various natural phenomenon, have been invented. So far, no practical universal storage medium exists, and all forms of storage have some drawbacks. Therefore a computer system usually contains several kinds of storage, each with an individual purpose
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I prefer to work out with an eliptical machine and weights.\nVirtual drives are used for playing games without the game CD.
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first off 3 gb is a bit on the small side so you could move the files to a second hard drive. \ncompressing files is an option. another is removing some programs.
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Well it depends on the purpose. You can definitely have a benifit of have the outer 20 GB as partition for faster access by using it for system files and applications.
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A hard drive (or hard disc) is the primary storage device on a modern computer. The word 'hard' refers to the fact that the disc is physically ridget, and also that it is hidden inside the computer and cannot be casually touhed or taken out (like a floppy disc can be) Hard discs are almost always the largest storage mediums available on a particular computer system and are the discs where the operating system and most other programs are installed.
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Floppy disc usage is becoming rare. People use CDs instead to store files. I can't think of any advantages right now.
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The faster the disk turns the less time waiting for disk to turn to where data is waiting. With an external drive it may not be as important as the throughput could be limited by the interface used.
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It's a digital media player. You download your media (music, videos, etc.), and it stores your media, organizes it, and allows playback. I think the latest version holds 80 Gb of stuff. That's a huge amount of stuff...
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It's the "in memory" version of a file system\ninode (which resides on the disk).\n\nIt contains everything that the on disk version\nholds, but *also* has other fields needed at\nruntime.  For example, the on-disk version doesn't\nreally need to keep track of which device it came\nfrom -- it's *on* that device.  However, once in\nmemory, it does need to keep track of that.  Also,\nat runtime, many locks are needed (to protect it\nfrom multiple-update on a multi-processor system).\n\nTake a look at "struct inode" at the reference below.\nAs the comment says:\n\n   Data in icommon is read in\n   from permanent inode on volume.\n\nwhich tells you which data is stored in the on-disk\ninode.  The rest is for the in-core expansion of\nthat data.
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it almost re-orders all the files and data, gives you more memory and virtual memory ....\nIt doesnt fix it , it just compresses it better , so things can run faster and better\nhope that helps
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I don't really understand your question. It's a tool for backup and data protection...
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There's no truly effective way to prevent loss of data when somebody has physical control over a device.  You can put in BIOS passwords, but they can open the case and reset the BIOS.  Likewise, the drives can be removed.  So the best way to prevent these kinds of problems would be to just maintain positive physical control over your hardware.
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In a home computer, storage will usually take the form of random access memory to store the computer programs that are currently running and the documents that are being worked on, a hard disk to store the programs that are not running and the documents that are not worked on at the moment, and a removable media to store purchased programs and archived documents.
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to get rid of a virus or if the mft is corrupted .. you can make the drive unusable if ur not careful ... manufacturers websites usually have info about it ... oops thats backwards .. its a lowlevel format ... high level is a regular format to get a disk ready to accept files by the operating system ...it organizes the disk...
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they arnt recongized by older windows versions, so if thats the case install the software (which is usually on the CD theey came with). IN win xp, they are usually recognized as a 'mass storage device'
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Well i dont really get why you would want to use it as an external hard drive beacause I am assuming that its a regular bulky computer, but the answer is no it is not possible although im sure u can take the harddrive out of that computer and use it as a internal hardrive
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it's a form of network, share files and information, makes backing up easier. Various formats can be linked together