How to Maintain Hard Drive

like space, hard drives require treatment. He needs to be cleaned, rearranged, swept, and various other such treatments. To understand and manage disk space correctly, you need not be like arranging a room interior design. Required only a simple introduction-introduction of terms that are popular and important in the hard disk. Here are some key terms and short definitions.
• Fdisk:
Stands for fixed disks. An application / command that works under DOS system that serves to prepare the hard drive to be formatted.
• Partition:
An area / area of ​​physical (physical sections) on the hard drive. This partition can include whole or partial hard disk drive. When you divide your hard drive into two partitions are equal, then each partition will have a size very close to half-capacity hard drive.
• Format:
Making tersistematis structure on the disk so that pelatpelat in it form a regular pattern and are ready to be filled data.
• Scandisk:
A program to check and see if there is damage to the hard drive or not, well fix it.
• Defrag:
Rearrangement of files, sectors, track, and clusters on the disk so that the clustered regularly based on the logic of a particular arrangement.
• Internal buffers:
A system of temporary space on the hard disk that serves to accommodate the data to be sent to and from the hard disk plate.
• IDE / SCSI:
System interface on the hard drive. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, while the SCSI (pronounced "skasi") stands for Small Computer System Interface.
• RPM:
Stands for Rotation Per Minute, stated speed rotating plate every minute drive. The greater the RPM, the faster the data access time. The greater the RPM of a hard drive the better.
• Master:
The position of the jumper setting on the disk, where the hard drive in that mode functioned as a place of deposit of the operating system and computer applications.
• Slave:
The position of the jumper setting on the disk, where the hard drive in that mode functioned as data storage only, and does not function as a provider of operating systems and applications.

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