It's called a drive, if it goes straight but if angled downwards, it's called a smash
Probably the best answer is "give it to the IT department and let them deal with it." Any drive to be discarded which might contain sensitive financial (or other) information should be multiply-erased if possible, and destroyed if not.
(I would'nt smash my Aunt if I were you) but to answer your qestion it depends on how hard you hit them.
My dad made 1,000 programs run and blew up the entire server and the hard drive was fried except for the plastic. (And I mean 1,000 programs of 5GB each in the program.)
yes... to smash a flea you'd need to crush in in between your finger nails
a hard drive failure is when your hard drive stops working...
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
* Hard disk drive * Hard drive * HDD
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
It is the same as a laptop hard drive
No. IDE Hard Drive cannot be replaced with a Sata Hard Drive because the connectors are different. example. if you have sata hard drive installed on your machine. and you purchase IDE Hard drive. you won't be able to install the IDE hard drive where the Sata hard drive was because the IDE connectors are a different shape and size towards the Sata hard drive connectors.
To start, the hard drive cable connects your hard drive to your motherboard. Its really simple.