In older hard drives, the actuators were stepper motors. In most modern hard drives, voice coils are used instead. As their name suggests, these are simple electromagnets, working rather like the moving coils that make sounds in loudspeakers. They position the read-write arm more quickly, ...
Checks all files on your hard disk and all running programs. Custom Enables users to scan specific drives and folders. Microsoft Defender Offline Reboots the device and runs a scan outside the Windows kernel. As a best practice, you should schedule a daily Quick scan. At any time,...
To them, CDs are probably still relatively new technology and, depending on how serious they are about music, they may have quite a lot of recordings in older forms, such as long-playing (LP) records. The machines that play records, record players (also known as turntables and, ...
As of 2019, $200 could buy you at least an 8 TB portable external hard drive. In the 1990s, during AOL's heyday, 10+ GB hard drives were prohibitively expensive and a terabyte of data was unimaginable to most users. Deep down, Cueball discovers several files he is surprised about, ...
If you suspect spyware has infected a specific area of a computer, you can customize a scan by selecting specific drives and folders. You also can configure the schedule that Microsoft Defender Antivirus will use.You can choose to have Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclude processes in y...
In a brushless DC motor (used in such things as hard- and floppy-disk drives), you need to be able to sense exactly where the motor is positioned at any time. A Hall-effect sensor stationed near the rotor (rotating part of the motor) will be able to detect its orientation very ...
Flash has rapidly overtaken magnetic storage over the last decade or so; in everything from supercomputers and laptops to smartphones and iPods, hard drives have increasingly given way to fast, compact SSDs (solid-state drives) based on flash chips. That trend has been driven by—and helped...
If you suspect spyware has infected a specific area of a computer, you can customize a scan by selecting specific drives and folders. You also can configure the schedule that Microsoft Defender Antivirus will use.You can choose to have Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclude processes in your...
Checks all files on your hard disk and all running programs. Custom Enables users to scan specific drives and folders. Microsoft Defender Offline Reboots the device and runs a scan outside the Windows kernel. As a best practice, you should schedule a daily Quick scan. At any time, i...
Photo: Newer MP3 players (like the iPod Touch, top) are much thinner than older ones (like the iPod Classic, bottom), because they use flash memory instead of hard drives. The lack of hard drive also makes them more robust and reliable. ...