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- Flash drives: your mileage WILL vary
- Flash is an alien technology for disk users. I've noted before that flash drives can have really terrible write performance, but until I ran into it myself I had no idea how bad flash write performance could be.Last month I wrote see Five things you never knew about flash drivesFlash...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Sorry about your broken RAID 5
- You didn't know?I'm sorry I was the one to tell you that RAID 5 is broken today and will be well and truly broken in 2009 (see Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009), but somebody had to do it. The good news is that the industry is ahead of...
- Tags: Disk drives, RAID, RAID 5, Robin Harris, unrecoverable read error
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009
- The storage version of Y2k? No, it's a function of capacity growth and RAID 5's limitations. If you are thinking about SATA RAID for home or business use, or using RAID today, you need to know why.RAID 5 protects against a single disk failure. You can recover all your data...
- Tags: RAID, Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Disk drive life depends on . . . luck
- What is the primary determinant of drive life? I've read the latest research and talked to insiders. There are so many variables that the best answer is just . . . luck. Why is that? Is there anything you can do?Many variables - and some that aren'tThe recent Carnegie Mellon...
- Tags: Infrastructure, Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Death of a disk
- It even happens to storage bloggersThings are quiet today at Mojo manor. My external 160 GB disk died. It passed quietly. No grinding noises. No SMART warning. No real warning at all, but for the last couple of months I'd been feeling a little anxious about that drive. Call me...
- Tags: Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game over
- Blu-ray wonThe sturm und drang over the Blu-ray vs HD DVD battle has come to naught. After a bit of jostling Blu-ray has taken an unassailable lead over HD DVD. Blockbuster's Matthew Smith, SVP of merchandising, says "The consumers are sending us a message. I can't ignore what I'm seeing."...
- Tags: Marketing, Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- How to REALLY erase a hard drive - Update
- A new version of HDerase.exe has been releasedGo direct to UCSD's Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.HDerase.exe accesses an ATA disk drive's internal Secure Erase commands to wipe a disk clean. Merely deleting a file doesn't delete your data: the data is still on the disk...
- Tags: Disk drives, Security
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- The five weirdest things about flash drives
- Flash drives only look like disks. In fact, nothing works the way you'd think. Flash is really different from magnetic recording, and those differences have a big impact on flash drive performance. How well vendors manage flash oddities has a huge impact on performance and even drive lifespan.The five...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, Software, Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- WD's surprising little drive
- IIRC, it was just 15 years ago that Maxtor shipped the first 1 GB, 3.5" drive. The usual things happened: database admins all swore it was "too big," techies said it cost too much, and regular users wondered if they could ever fill it up.DBA's still kvetch about disk size...
- Tags: Disk drives
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Intel's latest memory problem
- Intel can't seem to catch a break. First their highly-touted FB-DIMMs deliver nothing beyond cost and heat. Now their highly-touted Robson technology is getting beat up.HP: are they or aren't they?In HP says no to Intel's Turbo Memory, David Meyer reports from London thatSteve Doddridge, senior notebook technology consultant for...
- Tags: Disk drives, Solid State Disk
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
Additional Resources
- Complete Data Wipe 1.5 (Windows)
- Complete Data Wipe is an advanced security software with full capabilities to erase entire hard disk drive partition, folders, subfolders and files you select, unused disk space and also records of your offline and online activities including history folders, cookies, Internet files temp folders, URL list. In addition, it removes...
- Tags: Folder, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Best Security Tips, Productivity, Security
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- TransMac 9.1 (Windows)
- TransMac for Windows can copy files to and from Macintosh format disk drives, flash drives, CD/DVDs, high density diskettes, dmg and sparseimage files. Features: create and compress Mac disk images dmg and sparseimage, built in burner software to create Mac format CD/DVDs, burn ISO and DMG files to CD/DVD. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, CD, Microsoft Windows, Acute Systems, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-11-03
- KLS Backup 2009 Professional 5.0.1 (Windows)
- KLS Backup 2008 is a backup, synchronization and disk cleaner program that allows you to back up or synchronize your data to local and network drives, CD/DVD media or FTP (SSLTLS) server. The cleanup feature is a complete solution to backup and clean private data and free up disk space....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, KLS Soft, KLS Backup 2008, Cleanup Feature, Synchronization Feature, Backups
- Software downloads 2009-10-30
- FolderSizes 4.8.1.74 (Windows)
- FolderSizes is a powerful, network-enabled disk space analysis utility which provides users and system administrators alike with deep insights into how their local and network drive space is being consumed. It employs an advanced, multi-threaded file system scanning engine that works against mapped drives, UNC paths, and local devices. FolderSizes...
- Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Key Metric Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- CryptoExpert Professional 7.9.13 (Windows)
- CryptoExpert uses a real-time on-the-fly encryption system to encrypt and decrypt data. Your files are stored in the encrypted form on virtual hard drive with password authentication, but when it is requested by any application, it gets decrypted on-the-fly. Conversely, unencrypted data to be stored is encrypted instantaneously and then...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Volume, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking
- Software downloads 2009-10-25
- 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
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.0.2.40 (Windows)
- Disk Defrag will speed up your computer by optimizing file system. It can defragment files, consolidate free space and move system files to the faster part of the disk. With Disk Defrag you'll get the maximum out of your hard drive performance. It is supplied with a powerful engine and...
- Tags: Disk, Performance, AusLogics, Microsoft Windows, Defragmentation
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers
- Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed
- Where is the love for Nvidia?A number of questions come up:Why not Nvidia chipsets anymore? Why did they go back to Intel for core logic when they slammed them in a previous tech show for power management concerns?What happened to added graphics options on the Mac Pro? Where...
- Tags: Mice, Servers, Desktops, hardware, Mini, GT 120, NVidia Corp., server, mouse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Magic Mouse
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
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