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Easy Disk Drive Safeguard 3.3 (Windows)

Easy Disk Drive Safeguard is a password-protected security utility that you can use to hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for them. When you hide or lock your drives, they become hidden or unavailable in all Windows software such...

Tags: Security, Disk, Disk Drive, USB Flash Drive, Help System, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-15

1st Disk Drive Protector 3.3 (Windows)

Protect your PC from abusive use of removable media with 1st Disk Drive Protector. This software will easily help you enforce whether your users are allowed to use removable media or access your local drives. You can not only hide, lock and prevent usage of local, network, Floppy and USB...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows, Removable Media, F Key Solutions

Software downloads 2009-10-23

SMARTReporter 2.4.2 (Mac)

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk Drive, Julian Mayer, SMARTReporter, S.M.A.R.T.

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite 1.0 beta (Windows)

Aeo3 HD Smart Lite is a portable software utility that retrieves hard disk drives' health, performance and operation status. This set of information is known as the hard disk drive's Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology or SMART data. Hard disks failure is a certainty and it can be a traumatic...

Tags: Software, Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Aeo3 Labs, Aeo3 HD Smart Lite, Hard-disks Failure, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-12

DEKSI Hard Disk Manager 2.90 (Windows)

DEKSI Hard Disk Manager is a multi-OS HDD/SSD monitoring and analysis application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. DEKSI Hard Disk Manager gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows, DEK Software, DEKSI Hard-Disk Manager

Software downloads 2009-08-12

Hexprobe 4.31 (Windows)

This is a professional hex editor for manipulating binary files, disk drives, and system processes. Key features are: View, search, and edit any file of any size on your disk drives easily and quickly. Find in disk/drive and processes. Find and repair problems with disk drives and processes. Map a...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows, Hexprobe System

Software downloads 2009-06-28

Disk Drive Security 3.2 (Windows)

Hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for specific drive types with this password-protected security utility. If you do not want the removable media to appear and be accessible in My Computer after it is inserted, just hide and lock...

Tags: Security, Disk, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-06-27

Disk Drive Administrator 3.12 (Windows)

Hide, lock, and protect your local, network, Floppy and USB drives, and disable the AutoRun feature for them. Control access to your drives by clicking on the checkboxes located within the group boxes representing them. Disable the AutoRun feature based on drive types to disable, for instance, only all USB...

Tags: Administrator, Disk, Disk Drive, IM, Microsoft Windows, USB Flash Drive, Instant Messaging, Flash Memory, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-06-18

Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun

Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Analytics, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Dell Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives: Storage Solutions for Select PowerEdge Servers

Dell recently introduced the industry's fastest Enterprise class storage medium, Solid State Disk Drives SSDs in select Power Edge servers. Solid State, the use of NAND Flash as a storage medium versus traditional rotating disks, is not a new idea. Consumer electronics have made use of NAND Flash at small...

Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, NAND Flash, Dell Computer Corp., Disk, Disk Drive, Solutions Inc., Storage, Server, NAND, Dell PowerEdge, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-05-01

OptiWin 2.1 (Windows)

OptiWin is an application comprised of a suite of 3 utilities that enhance total system performance by background optimization. Users can choose to: Optimize system RAM; Optimize Windows Registry; Optimize Hard Disk Drives. OptiWin defragments and recovers valuable system RAM automatically using pre-defined or custom settings. OptiWin also cleans and...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Windows Registry, RAM, Defragmentation, OptiRunWare, OptiWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-27

Erase Disk (Java) 1.0 (Windows)

EraseDisk is a Java 1.4 graphical GUI application to erase the empty space on a hard disk drive or flash drive by creating large temporary files and filling those files with ones, zeros, or random data. Deleted files that were previously on the disk drive will be overwritten and will...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Java, Microsoft Windows, Keith Fenske, EraseDisk

Software downloads 2009-04-14

SafeHouse Personal Edition 3.04 (Windows)

SafeHouse provides total privacy and protection for your sensitive files and folders using passwords and strong encryption. SafeHouse features military-strength encryption which is completely transparent to the way you work and is compatible with all Windows applications. This software is amazingly simple to use and works on all drives, including...

Tags: Password, Disk Drive, Memory Stick, Microsoft Windows, Encryption, File, PC Dynamics, SafeHouse, Memory, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-03-04

SafeHouse Professional Edition 3.04 (Windows)

SafeHouse provides total privacy and protection for your sensitive files and folders using passwords and strong encryption. SafeHouse features military-strength encryption which is completely transparent to the way you work and is compatible with all Windows applications. This software is amazingly simple to use and works on all drives, including...

Tags: Password, Disk Drive, Memory Stick, Microsoft Windows, File, PC Dynamics, SafeHouse, Memory, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-03-04

Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept

To determine the potential of Solid-State Drives SSDs to replace Hard Disk Drives HDDs in the enterprise, Intel IT conducted a Proof of Concept PoC that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and Total-Cost-of-Ownership TCO analysis. It found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could...

Tags: Disk Drive, Performance, I/O, TCO, Intel Corp., Roi/Tco, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-03-01

VolID(Disk Drives Serial Modifier) 4.0.1 (Windows)

With VolID you can modify your disk drive's serial number which is also called Volume ID (not hard disk's physical serial which you can find at back of your hard disk), the format of volume ID is: XXXX-XXXX (X maybe 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F). Close all running program before you modify your volume...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Microsoft Windows, Volume, SoftRM

Software downloads 2009-02-27

Full Hard Disk Drive Encryption Benchmarks and Performance

The author has been messing with and testing the Guardian Edge full hard disk encryption solution for the past few months. Basically, one installs the encryption client and it encrypts the entire hard drive by reading the data and applying an encryption algorithm. Furthermore, after one has finished the initial...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Performance, CPU, Encryption Algorithm, Encryption, IsYouGeekedUp.com

White papers 2009-02-26

Bringing Clarity to Hard Disk Drive Choices for Enterprise Storage Systems

Technology migrations for IT organizations are often challenging. But choosing the right storage hardware technology wisely, and implementing it appropriately for a given storage application and its associated workload, can lead to improved performance and lower operating costs. Awareness of the Hard Disk Drive HDD technology trends is important for...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Enterprise Storage, Storage System, International Data Group, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-01

Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives

Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives SSDs, Standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The author used the Windows Media Load Simulator WMLS test tool. WMLS...

Tags: Hard Drive, Windows Media, Disk Drive, Performance, Server, Intel Corp., Windows Media Load Simulator, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

White papers 2009-01-01

OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives

Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare performance and power for online transaction processing OLTP of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD5), standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The paper focused on a single usage scenario: that of a user...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, OLTP, Intel Corp., Principled Technologies, Application Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-01