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The hard disk drive is where you will store all of your saved files, documents, programs and applications. Hard drives can retain information for years on end. They can even outlive their owners.

When you are choosing the parts needed to build your own computer, do not forget the HDD. You should have at least one hard drive in your computer. This is where the files for your operating system are stored.

Many modern motherboards can support two Integrated Drive Electronics or IDE disk drives. IDE disk drives are also called Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment or PATA drives. This is an older technology, however, and the IDE hard drives are largely succeeded by the SATA disk drives or serial ATA drives.

If you like keeping a large collection of songs and movies, you may need additional hard drive space. You can easily remedy this getting extra hard disk drives. Extra hard disk drives may be located inside your computer case (internal HDD) or outside (external HDD).

External drives can be pretty advantageous if there is not enough space inside your computer case. Depending on its connectivity requirements, external hard drives can be classified into three types: those connected via a USB port, those that require a FireWire port and those that use an external SATA or sDATA port.

You can build a PC that uses flash memory or solid state drive (SSD) in place of the hard drive. SSD is a relatively new technology, however, and its price tag is not nice to look at. It also do not offer as much storage space as the hard drives. The advantage that SSDs have over hard drives is on speed and power consumption. SSDs are much faster and consume less power than hard drives.

Looking forward, SSDs will probably render the hard drive obsolete. But for now, a HDD is a cost-effective solution for your home built computer.

Article written by Jeffrey Frasco. Visit Computer Knowledge For You for a step-by-step tutorial on how to build your own computer.

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