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Showing posts with label hard drives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hard drives. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Building a Computer Part 2: The Build!

Posted on 16:53 by Unknown
I am not sure what to believe any more, the more you watch videos on building a computer the more and more the emphasize what goes wrong. ( New Egg has a nice 3 part series, part 2 features the actual building. ) These issues, seem like they can be so accidental, and not actually something you consciously do.  Static electricity being the biggest one.  Keeping this in mind probably pointed to my
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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Hard Drives

Posted on 21:11 by Unknown
Hard drives are the part of a computer that really drives me nuts.  While their are far more important parts of a computer, the hard drive seems to be the essential component of a computer that just calls it quits like a prima donna drama queen of computer components.  While I as a rule try to avoid dragging my computer from place to place unless absolutely necessary ( as a student when I spend
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