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What your disk drive isn't telling you

What your disk drive isn't telling youNo safe havenIt seems that our data simply have no safe place to reside anywhere. Hard disks are unsafe, DVD's are unsafe disk rot.....Come on, industry, give us a safe, reliable and enduring storage medium. How hard can it be?Greetz, Pjotr.Broken main page link,...

Tags: Storage, HARD DISKS, disk, disk drive, SCSI, RAID, file system

Discussion threads 2008-02-18

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Parachute 1.0 (Mac)

Parachute is a flexible, powerful backup tool that allows you make automated backups of your files. With Parachute you can select files individually, set your own schedule and backup to both local disks and remote servers. Pick Your Destination: With Parachute you can backup your data to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Backups

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Fresh Diagnose 8.27 (Windows)

Fresh Diagnose analyzes and benchmarks your computer system. It can handle many types of hardware, including CPUs, hard disks, video systems, and mainboards. Use this free software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect or diagnose problems, and increase performance. Features sensors module enhancement that will support...

Tags: Monitor, Microsoft Windows, Video, Freshdevices, PCI, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Components

Software downloads 2009-11-22

FileSalvage 7.0 (Mac)

FileSalvage is an extremely powerful data recovery tools designed to restore files that have been accidentally deleted, have become unreadable due to media faults, or were stored on a drive before it was re-initialized or formatted. It is device and file system independent, allowing the users to recover files from...

Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Intel Corp., SubRosaSoft, FileSalvage, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Storage Management, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Disks: why size means performance

Big hard drives have performance benefits that are at least as important than their raw capacity - and they may be the best and cheapest upgrade you can make to your system. Here's why. by Robin Harris

Tags: Disk, Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-11-18

vvvP (Virtual Volumes View, Photo Edition) 0.85 (Windows)

Catalogs photographs, both in removable devices and in hard disks at the same time. Images can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this file system can contain images from many disks. View the images and copy them to a folder in the computer.

Tags: File System, Microsoft Windows, Photograph, Image, FSoft

Software downloads 2009-11-18

WhatSize 4.8.3 (Mac)

WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically...

Tags: Folder, Apple Macintosh, ID-Design, WhatSize, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation

lol...and double lolwhoever thinks that windows 7 is any better than any previous disaster they created will be dispelled soon.Google will take over and leave MS in the dustGoogle is going to take over and leave the lethargic Windows in PC dust.loverock's mother herei must apologize for my 44 old...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

CryptoExpert Lite 7.9.14 (Windows)

CryptoExpert creates encrypted virtual disks and these disks are visible as usual disks with drive letters (for example, G:, H:, Z:, i.e. with any drive letter that is not used by other system devices). The data stored on a CryptoExpert disk is stored in the container file. A container is...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, InterCrypto, CryptoExpert

Software downloads 2009-11-14

New DVDs store digital photos for centuries

Obsolete solution surely?1. Surely the cost of cloud disk storage, being two orders of magnitude lower, renders this obsolete?2. Important to consider the file format too: no good having jpg if Photoshop 3010 can't read it! Indeed could one be sure that tiff will still be around in 1000 years?...

Tags: Consumer electronics, disk, mankind, photograph, Cranberry DiamonDisc, digital photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

SoftAmbulance File Recovery 2.7 (Windows)

Undelete and recover files deleted from hard disks, USB drives and flash memory drives reliably and automatically with SoftAmbulance File Recovery. The recovery tool is simple and easy to use, yet packs sophisticated data recovery technologies under the hood. Pre-recovery preview allows viewing deleted files before recovery, and the proprietary...

Tags: Data Recovery, Disk, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Recovery Tool, Deep Search Technology, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-10

RAID Alert 3.0 (Mac)

Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks RAIDs allow safe and inexpensive, safe storage of important data using two or more hard disks - either internally or as Firewire drives. Apple delivers software for buidling mirrored software RAIDs with every copy of Mac OS X. RAID Volumes continue to work even if...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Objectpark Software, RAID Alert, RAID, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-10

FileCataloger 2.0.1 build 22 (Windows)

Looking for files on your computer may become a horrible chore especially if you have the data scattered all over the hard disks and in no particular order. And if you add a considerable collection of DVDs then finding the much needed file may take a lot longer than expected....

Tags: Media, Microsoft Windows, Greendgh Software, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-10

MCataloguer 2.9.7 (Windows)

MCataloguer is a Unicode based multi-purpose cataloging software for CDs, DVDs, audio CDs, any hard disk folder or any other accessible media using powerful management tools to search and access files from within the catalog. All the cataloged disks are stored in a multi-level category hierarchy. The number of sub-categories...

Tags: Hard Drive, CD, Microsoft Windows, Computer Hardware, ApoliSoft, MCataloguer, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-10

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner 5.0.3 (Mac)

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is an award winning general purpose tool for Mac OS X. sLCC makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Novice and expert users alike will appreciate the powerful toolset sLCC provides. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is installed...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Tool, Northern Softworks, Maintainenance Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, sLCC Engine, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-11-09

R-Drive Image 4.6 build 4601 (Windows)

R-Drive Image creates disk image files for backup or duplication purposes. Disk image file contains exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS. These drive image files can then be stored in...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Windows, R-Drive Image

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver 1.0 (Windows)

Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver is a handy tool, which allows users to run defragmentation of their disks in screen saver mode. Like other screen savers in Windows, it starts automatically when a system has been idle for a few moments. While running, Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver generates a...

Tags: Disk, Screensaver, AusLogics, Microsoft Windows, Defragmentation, Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Disk2vhd 1.3 (Windows)

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines VMs. You can run Disk2vhd on a system that is online. Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in...

Tags: Disk, Microsoft Corp., Volume, Disk2vhd, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Virtualization

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!

Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-02