! We only sell the RE and VelociRaptor (enterprise and home) lines of desktop hard drives from Western Digital.

Did you know?

A hard drive stores all the data and programs on your computer when you're not using it/them and works somewhat like a record player (although you couldn't easily record on vinyl).  On an IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive, the most popular drive available right now although quickly being replaced by SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), the controller is built right onto the hard drive.  The computer will request a piece of data, a request handled by the Operating System (such as Windows) and the BIOS (Basic Input Output System), which tells the pieces of the computer how to talk to each other.  When the request arrives, the controller on the hard drive will tell the arm to start moving the head across the FAT (File Allocation Table) or MFT (Master File Table in NTFS) to figure out where it has put the data.

Once the hard drive figures out where the data is on the "platter", the arm scurries across the pie shaped sectors and through the clusters of the drive to retrieve the data, which is actually a magnetic on or off state.   A one (1) or a zero (0), respectively.  This data is then passed up through the recording head of the hard drive, back along the arm, down through the controller, and out to a temporary storage place, called a "cache".  When the storage place is filled up, the data is sent through a ribbon cable to an interface on the motherboard.   This happens at higher and higher speed as new harddrive technologies are released.

Because your data is so important, we only offer certain brands and models of hard drives that have proven the most reliable to our clients.