Hard Drives

1. What is a Hard Drive?
2. What is a Hard Drive for?
   • What are the advantages to hard drives?
   • What are the drawbacks of hard drives?
3. When were they initially made?
4. How do they work?
   • Writing data
   • Reading data
   • Read and write head
   • Cylinders
5. What are the different types of hard drive?
   • IDE
   • Serial ATA (SATA or S-ATA)
   • SCSI (small computer system interface)
6. Low Level Formatting
7. Partitioning
8. High Level Formatting (File System)
   • FAT16
   • FAT32
   • NTFS
   • MAC OS File system
   • EXT2
   • XFS
9. Bibliography
   • Internet sites
   • Software

Gregg Williams, 294805, CS_134 Web Report