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Planning to Open Computer Showroom @ Khobar,Saudi Arabia?

I would like to know how’s the business market prevailing presently. In order to kick-off the business.

Customized desktop computer combined with value added services and its related products. The company offers a one stop solution in selling hardware, software; and other IT related products.

Hardware products include high end products such as customized desktop PC and servers. Other IT peripherals refer to printers, modems, webcam, CRT and LCD monitors, flash memory, portable data storage devices, networking accessories, input devices, UPS, add-on circuit boards and connectivity products.

choose your target clients : individuals or companies ??
for individuals you will need a shop, you can open next to everybody else, for companies you will need an office and a great contact list.
if you open next to everybody else, you will be offering the same and will only pick traffic from that area, if you want people to come to you, find another location where there are no other computer stores, with high traffic of people and open over there.
your prices will have to be competitive and you will have to offer stuff that makes you stand out, dont go looking for top end vey expensive stuff, this disqualifies you from the start

good luck

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What are the differences between Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and a Storage Area Network (SAN)?


NAS uses a network cable and communicates over your LAN. A SAN is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices to servers in such a way that the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system. NAS appears remote and SAN appears local.

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Are There Any Laptops With TWO Internal Hard Drives/Slots?

I would like to use a laptop as a portable digital audio workstation and would like to run a Solid State Drive and a Standard Drive for storage.
HP Pavilion DV9620us has three things going against it: No longer available; AMD; Terrible Reviews. Thanks though.

yes, most of the gateway FX series have dual hard drive slots capable of raid 0 or 1. I run my gateway fx laptop with dual ssd in a striped raid. Runs avid media composer pretty well and before i bought the hard drives it only cost 1000 bucks (good price for a avid media composer computer) Some of the widows have 3 slots and can handle raid 5. (not good for digital audio since your write speed is limited) Some of the real expensive asus can support 2 drives, but I am unsure if they support raid. What most editors do is have a solid state drive(or 2) in there computer and use an external for bulk storage. I’m not sure of the transfer requirements for audio, but hd video requires 200mb/s so solid state is needed. For audio you might get away with dual 7200 rpm drives. Exturnal is a better option for bult storage since laptops drives cap at 500 gb in most cases. Portable externals cap at 2tb in most cases.

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New solid state boot drive?

I just got a new solid state drive to run windows 7 on and I’m wondering if there’s a quick way to make it so the programs can run off the other hard drive without having to install them again. Some programs open, but without their settings. For instance Firefox opens fine but acts like I just installed it and all settings are gone. Mass effect 2 won’t open because it says I don’t have a direct x driver that comes with instalation. Is there any way to copy the program settings over so I can be running windows on the new ssd but run the program from my storage drive without reinstalling all my programs? Or is windows picky about this?
Also I would like to delete windows from the storage drive to save space and streamline my boot process. what is the best way to do this?

Re-installation of Windows 7 and your applications to the SSD is the best way.

Use Windows 7’s backup program to back up an image of your SSD onto an external drive or youy HDD so in case of disaster, you can recover quite fast.

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i have a lenovo x60 tablet. do i have a sata raid?

i’m trying to download an xp sp3 with sata raid then downgrade my vista laptop to the xp.

It is unlikely that a laptop would have RAID. The hard drive might be on a SATA connection, though.

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Can I store my music from my computer on an external storage drive/USB?

Hey, I have a whole library of music on my computer that I don’t want clogging up my hard drive. I’ve seen those little USB drive things for sale (anywhere from 256 mb up to 1 gb or 2 gb), and I was wondering, could I fit my music on one of these and still be able to access it later? I’m a novice computer user so I have no clue what the best solution would be for me. I don’t want to delete my music or just burn it all to cds, so I was hoping this might be a good alternative. What do you think? Oh, and do I need a specific brand or anything to work with my computer? I have an HP a1110n computer (a desktop with a flat panel monitor). Does that information matter when going to buy one of these storages drives? Thanks.
Okay, so if I save my music to dvd, can I delete them from my computer? Or should I get an external hard drive, load them to that, save them to dvd, and then delete them? Just trying to figure out what to do first. Thanks.

Doesn’t matter what kind of computer you have. Just buy a USB-drive (2 GB should be okay), and plug it in to a USB port. If it does not automatically open, go to "My computer" and look for the drive, click it, then select all of your music files, and drag them into it. Then wait for them to transfer, and delete them off your computer. Or you can buy an external hard drive (like I did) and do that. That was you have more storage.

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Is there a 128 GB Solid State mp3 player yet?

Hi - I’ve been waiting … and waiting … for Creative, my preferred company for mobile media, to release their product in a larger size than 32 GB. It’s been over a year, and they just released the next model: same crappy storage space, more useless features! …. *crickets* … I give up.

If I can have a 256 GB thumb drive, I should be able to find a 128 GB mp3 player (one that can handle video as well, of course), even if that means giving up on Creative. Is there a product out there that meets my needs?

minimum:
128GB capacity
support mp3, wma
support some video
video-capable screen
video-output

bonus:
Bluetooth compatible (for Bluetooth headphones)
easy transfer (plug/play, drag/drop would make sense)

Thanks for your help, even if the answer is "not unless you wire up your own outputs to a flash drive"

Your talking shenanigans. There is no such thing, yet. Only the oh so amazing trendy 160GB ipod Classic. Or the 120GB Zune(wireless sync). And then there are the Archos models that come in 250GB and blah blah blah.

So in general, not unless you wire up your own outputs to a flash drive. :p

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How to make a sata raid floppy disk to install windows xp on Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2 Motherboard with sata hdd?

I am trying to install Windows XP on Gigabyte GA-945GZM-S2 Motherboard on sata hdd but winxp asks for sata floppy so that it can install itself on the sata hdd provided

The driver will be on the disk that came with your motherboard.
you may have to browse the cd, but it should be labeled as raid drivers..
I haven’t installed XP in ages, it might not allow you to look on a cd?
If it doesn’t you can use any floppy disk and just get the raid drivers from gigabyte and put them on the floppy disk.
If you don’t have a floppy drive you can try putting them on a flash drive.
I seem to recall having this issue a long time ago and having to buy a floppy drive….

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I need a internet shared storage solution.?

Here is my problem. I have laptop that I roam with, home, travel etc. I have an office with a dedicated internet connection and my work computer.

I need a drive that I can plug in to my network so I can connect via the office or anywhere remote and have 1 place for my data.

Any suggestions on hardware? Thanks!

GDocs
MS Office Workspace Live

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Explain these Types of Flash Memory Storage?

Solid State Drive (SSD)
Memory Card
USB Flash Drive, sometimes called a thumb drive

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive, not to be confused with a RAM disk.

A memory card or flash memory card is solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device capable of storing digital contents. These are mainly used with digital cameras, handheld and Mobile computers, mobile phones, music players, digital cinematography cameras, video game consoles, and other electronics. They offer high re-record-ability, power-free storage, small form factor, and rugged environmental specifications. There are also non-solid-state memory cards that do not use flash memory, and there are different types of flash memory. Many cards incorporate wear levelling algorithms in their design

A USB flash drive consists of flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1 or 2.0 interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, much smaller than a floppy disk, and most weigh less than 30 g (1 oz).[1] Storage capacities in 2010 can be as large as 256 GB[2] with steady improvements in size and price per capacity. Some allow 1 million write or erase cycles[3][4] and have a 10-year data retention cycle

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