114 Part II: Beefing Up Your (Web reseller) PC for
114 Part II: Beefing Up Your PC for Windows Vista, Games, and Video Hard drive hardware, mechanics, and connections These terms describe your drive s physical characteristics an important thing to know when you re installing the drive inside your PC. Master/slave/Cable Select: Some hard drive cables come with two connectors, and this system lets you tell the PC which drive is attached to which connector. The drive containing the operating system (Windows) is known as the master; the other drive is a slave. By placing a little jumper across certain rows of pins on each drive, you tell it whether it s a master or slave. The two connectors on a special Cable Select cable come with Master/Slave labels. Connect the drive you want as master to the cable s Master connector; put the other on the cable s Slave connector. Then choose the Cable Select jumper on both of the drives to let the PC know of your handiwork. To designate their jumpers as master, slave, or Cable Select, some drives use abbreviations like MA, SL, and CS, or something even more obscure. The first letter of the abbreviation is the give-away. Unlike IDE/ATA drives, SATA drives don t bother with master/slave/Cable Select relationships. Each SATA cable connects to its own drive, sparing you from fiddling with jumpers. Cache: Memory chips included on a hard drive. Because memory chips work much faster than hard drives, they temporarily store, or cache, recently acquired pieces of information. If the computer needs the information again, it grabs it straight from the cache, saving time by not mechanically rooting for it on the disk. The more megabytes in the cache, the faster the drive. Partition: A division of space inside a hard drive. When you take a hard drive out of the box, it s like a large warehouse. Before you can use it, you must partition it. Partitioning tells the hard drive what boundaries to use for storing data. In Windows XP and Vista, most people create one partition often called a volume that fills their entire hard drive. Format: The structure a partition uses to store data. After you create a partition on a hard drive, the partition needs to be set up with virtual shelves so that the computer may stack data onto it. Formatting prepares the partition to accept data. All new partitions must be formatted before use. (Windows XP and Vista work most securely with the NTFS file system, so choose that when you re formatting your hard drive.)
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