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- Disk Drive
- A storage device that holds, spins, reads and writes magnetic disks or optical (CD, DVD, MO, UDO) disks. It may be a receptacle for removable disk cartridges, floppy disks...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Windows System Information Utility by HeidiR 9.75 (Windows)
- Windows System Information is a utility that provides a list of windows settings and configuration information in an intuitive single window display. Currently, the utility provides the following features and limits: 100 plus general Windows settings and configuration items. Up to 20 user account details. Up to 20 logical disk...
- Software downloads 2008-12-30
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