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Comment: This article is a little old, but useful for those who really know next to nothing about drive partitions. It’s a good basic article to read.

Partitioning your hard drive can make it more efficient, and it can also enable you to install more than one operating system on your computer. But partitioning can also be an arcane task. This article offers some advice on partitioning.

Read this article at Partitioning your hard drive

Edited by Narasu Rebbapragada  External hard drives aren’t as fast as internal models, but they are great for backups and are easy to install.

Check out the comparisons at Top 5 External Hard Drives

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 By Felisa Yang It seems like only yesterday that we were agog at the idea of having tens of gigabytes in a hard drive. Now, a few hard drive vendors who believe that consumers are beyond gigabytes have unleashed terabyte hard drives onto the market. That’s right, a terabyte. That’s 1,000 gigabytes.

Find out more at Terabyte RAID arrays

By Rick Broida

Your music, movies, and other media are no less important than your contact database and business documents, yet we often forget to include them in our backup plans. Even worse, many of us have no backup plan at all. That’s dangerous. As any seasoned computer jockey will tell you, data loss is not a question of if but when.

Read more about this at Back up your digital media

Music engineer Dave Rat switched to Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drives and Maxtor OneTouch™ III Turbo Edition storage solutions to ensure that every live song from the band’s current tour was securely stored, backed up and safely transported.

Read more at Seagate Customer Stories - RHCP 

By Valerie Henson. Article from Computerworld.

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Their first major result was that the real-world failure rate was much higher than manufacturers’ estimates: an average of 3% vs. the estimated 0.5% to 0.9%.

… for an individual user for whom losing his disk is a disaster, replacing the disk at the first sign of a SMART error makes eminent sense.

Read more at Computerworld:  Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises