Chapter 5

Disks and Disk Drives

Your T2150CD series computer has a number of data storage features. This chapter introduces the computer’s data storage devices and describes how to use them.

Types of Disk Drives

The following data storage devices are available:

Hard disk drive

An internal 2 1/2”, 520 million byte (500MB) hard

 

disk drive (HDD) provides nonvolatile storage for

 

data and software.

CD-ROM drive

A double-speed internal CD-ROM drive lets you

 

run 12 cm and 8 cm CD-ROMs.

 

It supports the following formats:

 

Audio CD

 

Photo CD

 

ISO 9660

3 1/2” external diskette drive

The external 3 1/2” diskette drive stores 1.44MB of

 

data on a diskette. It can also read and write

 

diskettes formatted to store only 720KB.

RAMDRIVE

The T2150CD series computers support

 

RAMDRIVE, a type of RAM Disk. For more

 

information about RAMDRIVE, refer to Chapter 9,

 

Memory.

Hard Disk Drive

The internal 2 1/2” hard disk provides high-speed, long-term storage for programs and data. The computer’s internal hard disk combines high storage capacity with very rapid access to your data. You cannot write protect the hard disk.

You can allocate separate areas of the HDD to different operating systems. The HDD can support up to four different operating systems.

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