Computer Education Article

RAID (level 0) Performance or (level 1) Data Integrity

May 12, 2006

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Raid configurations mostly benefit gaming, performance and media computers. They benefit business users in workstations and servers. A RAID system uses more than one hard drive for the benefit of increasing data integrity, fault tolerance, throughput or capacity. This does depend on the RAID configuration used such as RAID 0, or 1. At the very simplest level, RAID combines multiple hard drives into a single logical unit. Thus, instead of seeing several different hard drives, the operating system sees only one. What RAID is and what it does for you depends on what configuration you choose....... Read more

Quality Technical Support should be included with a New Computer

December 20, 2005

When you purchase a PC you look for all the bells and whistles you would like to include in you new computer. You are hoping the bells and whistles are also assembled with quality and great performing components. Well when you are looking for a great performing reliable computer most people should be looking to see what type of technical support is provided with their purchase. Even computers with quality are likely to need some technical support during the warranty period. Here are some issues with technical support on new computers...... Read more

High-Performance Computer Terminology

November 24 2005

Interested in learning high-performance computer terminology? This information may help when shopping for a high-performance PC or custom gaming computer. These are some of the main components in these computers and give explanations of new terminology and what advantages they provide...... Read more

Should I Make a Backup of My Computer?

August 15, 2005

Few people that purchase a new computer go through the trouble of making a backup on their computer of their applications or data. Backups take more time than people are willing spend on them. Their is one question you should ask yourself? Do I have any valuable letters, spreadsheets, pictures or financial or other data that I will lose if my computer has hardware, operating system, virus or spyware problems which cannot be recovered. If your answer is yes you should make some type of backup..... Read more

Dual Core Processors: The Next Step in Technology

July 26, 2005

AMD's and Intel newest processor chips are dual core processors. What are dual core processors and what advantages do they have you ask?

Dual-core chips build in two processing cores, in effect giving you two CPU's in a single processor chip.These processors also Included two L2 memory caches, one for each core. These features will increase performance for working with multiple applications at once or when using multi threaded software that has a design to recognize more than one processor..... Read more