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- Hard Drive
- The primary computer storage device, which spins, reads and writes one or more fixed disk platters. In practice, the terms "hard drive" and "hard disk" are used synonymously. ...
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- Brinell's Purestorage external hard drives are elegant, but pricey
- Brinell has tried its best to combine elegance and performance with their suave-looking new line of Purestorage portable hard drives. Is beauty worth its price? by Rachel King
- Tags: External Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Brinell, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Yep 2.0.3 (Mac)
- Every computer has loads of PDF, Office and iWork files, probably scattered all over your hard disk. Use Yep to search, view, and manage all these documents wherever they lie on your hard drive. Think of Yep as iPhoto for your documents. Yep does not move or change your files...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Adobe PDF, Ironic Software, Yep 2
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- CrystalDiskInfo 3.1 (Windows)
- CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Monitoring, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, Crystal Dew World, CrystalDiskInfo, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- Hard Disk Sentinel 3.00 (Windows)
- Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, health and performance including temperature and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks today) values for each hard disks. Also it measures the hard disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Backup, Microsoft Windows, H.D.S. Hungary, Professional Version
- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- Trick or Treat: Five fun orange gadgets
- With Halloween just a few days away, it doesn't hurt to get in the mood a little with some pumpkin-colored gadgets for the Fall holiday. Here are five orange treats to go with your costume this weekend: 1. Sony Webbie HD MHS-PM1: If you...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Apple iPod Nano, Camera, Gadget, Keyboards, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Music, Memory, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Consumer Electronics, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Argus Monitor 1.1.11 (Windows)
- Argus Monitor is a software for monitoring temperatures and status of several system components, e.g. CPU temperature, GPU temperature and HDD temperature. All temperatures are displayed graphically. Additionally, the status of the hard disk drive will be monitored by constantly checking the so called critical SMART attributes. If one attribute...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, Temperature, Argotronic, Argus Monitor, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- Data Rescue 3.0.1 (Mac)
- Do you have a corrupt hard drive or one that no longer mounts? Are other Mac file recovery utilities failing to even recognize your bad drive? Do you need to recover files that have been deleted? Data Rescue 3 is the best data recovery software on the market for recovering...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Prosoft Engineering, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Apple MacBook Fall 2009 (Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Nvidia GeForce 9400M)
- Want to review the new WaterField Designs SleeveCase for it?Hi,Not sure which editor posted this review, but...if you'd like to review a SleeveCase that will be custom-fitted to the new Macbook unibody dimensions, I'd be happy to send you a review sample. Write me at heygary-at-sfbags.com.http://www.sfbags.com/products/sleevecases/sleevecases.htmThanks,HeidiWaterField DesignsP.S. Sorry about...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, NVidia Corp., Nvidia GeForce, Apple Inc., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Apple MacBook Fall 2009 (Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Nvidia GeForce 9400M)
- While it's neither the less-expensive entry-level MacBook some had hoped for, nor the long-rumored touch-screen device, the new 13-inch MacBook can now escape its designation as the lone holdover system from Apple's previous generation, thanks to an upscale makeover that keeps the price stable at just under the $1,000 mark....
- Tags: Notebooks, Nvidia GeForce, hard drive, Apple MacBook, NVidia Corp., Apple Inc.
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- Dell Inspiron One 19 debuts in Japan
- While it's not available yet or even visible on Dell's North American websites, Japan got first grabs to the new Dell Inspiron One 19 desktop system. All-in-one and looking much like the iMac just in black, its definitely more sleek and attractive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Japan, Dell Inspiron, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- FF Inventory Pro 5.3.5 (Windows)
- Unlimited vendors, purchase orders, receivers, invoices, payments, customers and products. Limited only by hard-disk space. Fast, compact 32-bit program execution. Requires less than 3 megabytes of hard disk space. No runtimes or DLL's. All files stored in same directory. Includes the award-winning Billing Manager PRO for invoicing. Supports multiple companies...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Hard-disk Space, Microsoft Windows, M & R Technologies
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- VSuite Ramdisk Free Edition 1.14.2017.1955 (Windows)
- Equipped with the most efficient, high speed CPU, RAM, and video graphics card, users will come to expect best performance out of their computers. But the sad truth is, they aren't getting the best deal. Hard disk, which forms another crucial part of computers, still very much lag behind in...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, CPU, RAM, Romex Software, VSuite Ramdisk, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-10-22
- A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
- Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...
- Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
- I've noticed that over in the TalkBack section of Zack Whittaker's post on his hard drive going belly up that a few readers have suggested a possible fix involving swapping the logic board of the dead drive with one from a working drive. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Hard Drive, Recovery, Board, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- One second: The time it takes to wipe three years of work
- Not all that worriedWith the cost of drives these days, and with Raid cards or raid capable Motherboards at such cheap prices these days, I've setup mine with a RAID 1 mirror.Plus an automated weekly backup.I spend alot of time and money on my music (just sitting there ripping my...
- Tags: Backups, backup, Live Mesh, RAID, Acronis, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- DiskGetor Data Recovery 2.1 (Windows)
- DiskGetor Data Recovery is a powerful hard disk data recovery software, fast free scan hard disk or hard drive partition, fast recover deleted (word/excel/music/zip/pdf/video) files or recover lost data from hard drive , lost/deleted/format/repartition/missing/Ghost raw partition or usd card ,raid disk drive. Even if you have written part of data,The...
- Tags: Software, Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Microsoft Windows, DNSSOFT, DiskGetor Data Recovery
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- 'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
- nonsenseanybody who is truly concerned about security will have set the BIOS to require a password at boot...and will set 'boot from USB' to 'Disabled'.Can't you password protect from even booting up?I assume we are talking about business class laptops.InterestingPhysical security is paramount - especially when it comes to data...
- Tags: Notebooks, maid, BIOS, laptop computer, USB, Evil Maid, hard drive, Evil, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Hard Drive Inspector Professional 3.31 build 255 (Windows)
- Hard Drive Inspector Professional is a technology-based program, which allows controlling the state of your hard disk drives. As the access to electronic information becomes more and more vital in business and at home, Hard Drive Inspector allows exceeding the traditional limits of HDDs reliability, thus extending the level of...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, User Data, AltrixSoft, Hard Drive Inspector Professional, Quik Tech Solutions USB Storage Adapter
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- HDClone Free Edition 3.8.2 (Windows)
- The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for moving or cloning contents of entire hard disks. Since it works on physical level it can be used with any operating system and any filesystem. HDClone copies the data for you. This allows you to transfer entire system installations to...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Operating System, Microsoft Windows, HDClone
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
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