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November 2000
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Upgrade Guide: Manage Your Drive Connections The EIDE interface is the main storage connection in most PCs, not just for hard drives and CD-ROM drives but for CD-RW and removable-media drives as well. A poor configuration can hurt performance, so the more devices you hook up, the more important managing the multiple connections becomes...   |
PC World
April 24, 2001
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Install a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive One of the most popular upgrade projects, step by step... |
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November 14, 2007
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A New DVD Burner You can reconfigure the master or slave designation when swapping optical drives. |
PC World
September 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Build Your Own PC Save money and craft a system that exactly matches your needs... |
Popular Mechanics
June 2004
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How To Change A Hard Drive Adding hard-drive space for more storage. |
PC World
September 2003
Stan Miastkowski |
Step-By-Step: Boost Your Hard-Drive Speed With Serial ATA Serial ATA drives offer serveral advantages over parallel drives -- including speed. |
PC World
July 2003
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Put Together a Custom PC Get the right components and assemble a system that's suitable for your needs and budget. |
PC World
October 1, 2000
Stan Miastkowski |
Hassle-Free Backups Hard-drive capacities are bigger than ever. Your data is more valuable than ever. Thank goodness backing up is getting easier than ever. Here's a disaster-avoidance game plan. |
PC World
July 2001
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Find the Perfect Hard Disk for Your PC Choose the best hard drive for your PC, speed up monitor resets... |
PC World
March 1, 2000
Jon L. Jacobi |
"Hello, Get Me Rewrite!" You put all-weather tires on your car. You use all-temperature laundry soap. Why can't you find all-purpose storage for your PC? Floppy drives are painfully small and snail slow. Zip drives are faster but far from universal, and the media isn't cheap. Optical drives are even more rare and expensive. But now, new CD-Rewritable drives combine affordability with enough speed and flexibility to qualify as a first-rate storage option. |
PC World
April 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Guide: Install a DVD-ROM Drive Install a DVD-ROM drive, step by step... |
PC World
September 2003
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60-Minute Upgrades Get new PC power in an hour -- or less -- with these speed boosters, storage add-ons, and more. Plus: Tune-up tips to keep your system going strong. |
PC World
September 2001
Kirk Steers |
Do-It-Yourself Dream Machines A step-by-step guide to the smartest upgrades, plus the ultimate PC project: building your own system... |
PC World
September 2004
Dahl & Baguley |
Your Ideal PC Whether you're upgrading your PC or building one from scratch, we show you how to choose the right parts and put them all together. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006 |
An Optical Drive Upgrade How to remove a CD-RW and install a CD-DVD unit. |
PC World
March 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
Livin' Large We test the latest in jumbo drives to see which deliver the most speed, capacity, and ease of use for the money... |
PC World
November 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Shattered: This CD's in Tatters? High-speed drives increase the chances that a defective CD will explode. |
PC World
January 2004
Stan Miastkowski |
Step-By-Step: Burn Your Own DVDs for Backup or Video Playback Here's how to install a DVD drive and transfer videotape to DVD. |
PC World
September 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Buyers' Guide to CD-RW Drives Prices don't vary much, so look for fast models that have features such as Mt. Rainier support. |
PC Magazine
March 1, 2006 |
Upgrading Your Optical Drive: A Simple Procedure Most optical drives have only a power cable and a data cable, both of which should be easy enough to disconnect and then attach to the new drive. |
PC World
September 2002
Sean Captain |
Buyers' Guide to Hard Drives If you work mostly in standard office programs, nearly any drive will do. But speed counts for multimedia authoring. |
PC World
November 2002
Robert Luhn |
Storage: Return of the Zip Drive Iomega's $180 drive speedily records data to 750MB disks. |
PC World
June 2004
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Get the Hard Drive That's Right for You and Your PC There is a whole lot more than size to consider when shopping for today's hard drives. Here's advice on purchasing the right one for you. |
PC World
October 2003
Kirk Steers |
Is It Time to Upgrade to Rewritable DVD? Determine the right DVD format for you; make sense of speed ratings; lighten up on power adapters; install a keystroke logger. |
PC World
November 19, 2001
Melissa J. Perenson |
CD-RW Drive Bargains Continue Tough markets for vendors benefit buyers -- and other bonuses are ahead... |
PC World
July 2002
Alexandra Krasne |
Drag 'N' Drop To CD-RW Easily New technology promises simple file transfers, near-zero formatting time... |
PC World
March 2002
Melissa J. Perenson |
Buyer's Market: CD-RW Drives Tough market for vendors benefits users -- and other bonuses are ahead... |
PC World
April 17, 2002
Lincoln Spector |
CD-RW Drives Hit 40X -- But Where Are Discs? When newest, fastest drives arrive earlier than rated media, users take a risk in the meantime... |
PC World
December 2003
Richard Baguley |
DVD Burners: The New Optical Choice Rewritable DVD drives are fast replacing CD-RW models as the optical drives of choice. They offer a fast, cheap, and convenient way to store large amounts of data, and they let you burn your own movies or recorded TV programs to DVD to be watched on a standard DVD player. |
PC World
August 2003
Christopher Null |
Mega Storage to Go There's a new removable storage option for every job, from key chain-size USB drives to humongous external hard disks. We examine 15 portable, affordable contenders. |
PC World
June 2006
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Make Your Hard Drives Faster and Safer With RAID Choose the RAID configuration most appropriate for your needs... Avoid wrist pains caused by keyboard typing... Dusting your PC just got easier... |
PC World
August 2002
Robert Luhn |
Ultimate Backup Guide These storage devices make backing up so fast, easy, and affordable, you'll actually do it. |
PC World
September 2001
Sean Captain |
Hard Drives: 100GB & Larger Desktop drives have reached 100GB, and larger models are waiting in the wings, but technical limits stand in the way... |
PC World
August 15, 2002
Tom Mainelli |
Iomega Pushes Zip Drive Storage to 750MB Drive triples the storage and hits twice the speed of old Zip drives, but will CD-RW lovers care? |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004 |
External Storage: Little Big Drives Backup has gotten personal: Small drives that match your lifestyle have changed the face of storage and backup. |
PC World
December 2005
Melissa J. Perenson |
Flexible, Cheap Network Storage The Netgear Storage Central SC101 accommodates two hard drives and links seamlessly with your Windows XP-based PC. |
PC World
April 23, 2001
Kirk Steers |
Remove Your (CD) Writer's Block Prevent disc-burning flameouts; find Windows answers a whisker away... |
PC World
June 2005
Kirk Steers |
Plan Ahead to Keep Your Big Hard Drive Purring Prepare your computer for a new massive hard drive... Gizmo Power to Go... |
Entrepreneur
October 2001
Mike Hogan |
Now on DVD! Chances are, you love the recordable CD drives in your office. But if you have a lot of data to juggle, it's time to add a recordable DVD drive to the lineup -- or, even better, a new PC with one already installed... |
PC World
August 23, 2006
Robert Luhn |
Best PC Upgrades The PC you need for tomorrow's tasks may be the one you own today after you upgrade its performance in one or more key areas. We show you how. |
PC World
August 2005
Jim Aspinwall |
Reinvent Your PC Ever feel like your system's being left behind by today's technology? Here's how to make any machine run faster, store a lot more data, and serve as your entertainment hub. |
PC World
August 2003
Kirk Steers |
Take a Crash Course in Emergency PC Recovery Revive your PC after a crash; protect your data from drive failure with a RAID configuration. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007
Erik Sofge |
NAS200 Does Data Cloud Right with Painless Network Storage Network-attached storage is getting more popular, but not necessarily easier to use -- which is why the NAS200 is such a standout. |
PC World
January 2001
Stan Miastkowski |
The Mother(board) of All Upgrades Motherboard transplants rev up aging PCs... |
PC World
March 2006
Narasu Rebbapragada |
Beware of Double Drives External hard drives with 1 terabyte of storage combine multiple drives. What if one fails? |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
David A. Karp |
Build a RAID Array Don't wait inevitable hard disk crash; set up a mirrored RAID array and let your PC handle the backups for you. |
PC World
September 29, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
DVD Burners Gain LightScribe, DVD-RAM Our chart ranks nine new feature-packed internal and external drives. |
PC World
October 2002
Stan Miastkowski |
Upgrade Your System With a Motherboard Swap Insert a new motherboard to revitalize your PC. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Transferring Mirrored RAID 1 Data Mirroring data from an old drive to a new drive. |
PC World
December 2003
Jon L. Jacobi |
Prime Drive Time Sleek, capacious hard disks are making a new place for themselves in the home and on the road. We look at what's here and what's next. |
