IDE is an acronym for Integrated Drive Electronics, which is a hard disk drive interface in which the controller electronics reside on the drive itself, eliminating the need for a separate adapter card. IDE offers advantages such as look-ahead caching to increase overall performance. Although there are a number of uses, the most common interface is between hard disk drives and CD/DVD Rom drives. The original IDE standard supported drives up to 540 MB of data. The new standard, EIDE (Enhanced-IDE), supports drives with over 250 GB of data and allows for data transfer rates over twice as fast as IDE.

Top Reasons To Wipe Away Your Internet History

• Information about all the sites you have visited is stored on your computer!
  
• Every image you have ever viewed, sent or received over the Internet is stored on your hard drive!
  
• There is a record of every program that you have ever downloaded or used on your hard drive!
  
• The windows delete button and the empty recycle bin option does NOT completely delete your files!
  
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