Internal hard drive: types of hard drives and mounting


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Guide to mounting an internal hard disk with step-by-step procedure for a correct installation, what are the various types of hard disk.


Types of internal hard drives

The hard disk or hard disk is a very important component as it must contain data and heavily affects the performance of the entire computer.

Important factors in the choice will be the capacity now expressed in gygabytes, the rotation speed and access to data expressed in milliseconds.


The smart interface now supported by all motherboards allows you to predict the failure date of the hard disk for most hard drives on the market today, even if this does not exclude surprise failures.

Also called hard drive or hard drive it is used for stable data storage in a computer.

Inside it is composed of one or more discs in aluminum or glass, coated with rapidly rotating ferromagnetic material and two heads for each disc (one on each side), which, during operation, jump on the surface of the disc by reading and writing the data.


It is advisable to purchase very large hard disks that are available at ever lower prices and allow you to store huge quantities of bulky files such as videos, images and audio.

When choosing the Hard-Disk, the size, type of interface and performance influenced by the speed of rotation of the internal plates, data access time, cache must be considered.

As for the interface, it must be compatible with that accepted by the motherboard.

SSD hard drives are characterized by a much faster read and write data access speed as they have no moving mechanical parts.

To mount a hard disk you need to open the case and insert the hard disk in a free slot of the right size, fixing it with appropriate screws. Once this is done, connect the power and data cables.

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