Daily Tip: External Hard Drives & Power Among an external hard drive's advantages over adding a second internal drive to a PC is the fact that an external unit typically receives power from an AC adapter. Hard drives take a lot of power to start their disks spinning when you turn a PC on. If the computer's power supply is only marginally able to run the rest of the devices as it is, it might not be able to start the PC at all should you install another internal drive. You can buy drive enclosures to turn internal hard drives into external ones for about $25 and up. Be careful to buy one with the correct interface for the drive you have (such as EIDE [Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics] or SATA [Serial ATA]) and a cable interface supported by your computer (such as USB 2.0 or eSATA). Daily Term: kibibyte
>From kilo binary byte, a unit of measurement that is equal to precisely 1024 >bytes. Similar to the more common kilobyte. Kibibyte came about because the >prefix "kilo" may refer to 1000 units or 1024 units, whereas Kibibyte strictly >refers to 1024 units. David Ferrin Most people don't know what they're doing and a lot of them are really good at it. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
