Optical Drive Netbooks

A hard drive is where your store all of your MP3s and photos and it's also where you install applications like Microsoft Word or Genealogy software. There are two types of netbook drives. Solid state hard drives are smaller, usually under 16Gb in size. They are fast and boot up very quickly. Solid state hard drives don't have any moving parts - so are shock proof. Optical hard drives are larger - anything up to 250Gb - and cheaper. They do have moving parts, and can be affected by movement, but you'd have to really bang it around to have much of an effect.

Calculate Your Disk Drive Requirements

• There are 1024Mb in a Gb
• The average MP3 or WMA file is about 5Mb in size
• Photos from a 7 Megapixel camera are about 1.5Mb in size
• An average frame size, 4 minute long Windows Movie clip is about 55Mb
• A downloaded movie can be anywhere from 700Mb to 1.5Gb in size

Other Netbook Hard Drive Types

• Solid State Drive Netbooks
• Optical Disk Drive Netbooks