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Windows System Information Utility (zip)

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...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, HeidiR, Windows System Information, Disk Drive Detail, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-30

UltraBootCD (zip)

UltraBootCD included with Universal Panasonic Japanese USB DOS driver which allows user to transfer files from hard disk to USB devices Flash drive or USB hard disk or vise versa. UltraBootCD allows technician to transfer or take image of there valuable data from FAT, FAT32, NTFS or Linux (even from...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, USB, UltraBootCD, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-21

DiskZoom (zip)

DiskZoom is an elegant disk management utility that gives a graphical overview of the files and folders on your disk drives. DiskZoom is most useful when your drive is full, or nearly full, and you need help to identify the large folders and big files that are candidates for deletion....

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Tellapallet, DiskZoom

Software downloads 2008-09-24

How to archive on disk drives

How to archive on disk drivesDo you have some references to backup your claim?I am curious, do you have any references to backup your claims? 12 months?I have never heard of this before and interested to see the research.RE: How to archive on disk driveswell it is known that...

Tags: NEW Drives, disk drive, disk, FireWire, tape

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

How to archive on disk drives

Archiving on hard drives? Now that disk drives are cheaper per gigabyte than tape cartridges, you might be tempted to archive data on disk drives and stick them on a shelf. Don't do it! Your data won't last. The reason: the bits on the...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Archiving, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-09

SMARTReporter (dmg)

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, Disk Drive, SMARTReporter, S.M.A.R.T.

Software downloads 2008-08-20

Intel's tiny new flash drives

Data on your fingertip Disk drives are going to offer the best $/GB ratio for years to come. Flash drives have to offer something else. A case in point: Intel's new flash drives. Tinier than disks How tiny are they? The Z-P140 measures 12 x...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, USB Flash Drive, Intel Corp., Z-P140, Flash Memory, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-05

They died for Reddi-Wip?

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Foam, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-11

Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!

Can "prior art" be too prior? Dramatic evidence of America's broken patent system surfaced in last week's lawsuit by Seagate against STEC, the innovative developer of high-performance flash drives. Imagine winning a patent for something invented 10 years before. Seagate may sue SANdisk next. Seagate owns...

Tags: Patent, Disk Drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-04-25

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

What your disk drive isn't telling you

because it's clueless. You know you've got a problem when your disk drive goes ka-thunk. A study of 1.53 million disks finds that data errors are much more common than outright failures. You just don't know it. What's worse, neither do the people who design...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-17

3 mln removable hard disk drives to ship by 2012

Worldwide shipments of removable hard disk drives will increase at a 65% CAGR, totaling over 3 mln R-HDD solutions and additional disk cartridges in 2012, according to IDC. Total worldwide R-HDD revenue will grow equally as strong with a 52% CAGR. by NB

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Investment, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Secure Disk (exe)

Powerful encryption software with pre-boot authentication secures 100% of your hard disk drive, including the OS. Ultimate security standard for encryption at the physical sector level. Based on the most secure technology, AES256, this product is an outstanding data security tool. Support of flash media and USB hard disk drives,...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, PC, Data Security, Computer, Real International Business, Productivity, Security

Software downloads 2008-01-21

Hexprobe (zip)

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

Software downloads 2008-01-09

Scalable NAS and SAN Storage Systems Using Melio Cluster File System With Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 has evolved into a very flexible solution for both file serving and block storage applications. It combines the familiarity of the Windows operating system, file serving using CIFS or NFS, and now iSCSI storage for applications requiring block storage access. A Windows-based Storage server...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003, NAS, Disk, Disk Drive, SAN, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Storage Server, Sanbolic Inc., Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, I/O Performance, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-28

How smart is SMART?

Most disk drives include a feature named SMART - Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology - intended to tell you if your drive is dying. Can you rely on it? Sadly, no. Here's why. What is SMART? SMART is a protocol for passing information from a disk...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Data, Vendor, Protocol, SMART, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Are Chinese disk drives flaky?

Are Chinese disk drives flaky?Wow, the Mac sure is high quality!!!I followed your link and I laughed so hard at the following quote:[i]Some of the failures are attributable - indirectly - to Mac OS X's Safe Sleep feature. This copies the contents of a laptop's memory to the hard drive...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, Apple Macintosh, disk drive, disk

Discussion threads 2007-10-31

Are Chinese disk drives flaky?

What is Cantonese for "sucks"? A piece in the UK web site The Register, says of some recent Mac drives: According to Retrodata, its customers have sent in a much higher number of failed Seagate 2.5in SATA drives made in China and loaded...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Disk drives win Nobel Prize in physics

OK, two physicists who discovered Giant Magnetoresistance GMR did I went on a bit of a rant recently about how cool disk technology. Seems the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the organization that awards Nobel Prizes, agrees. GMR, disks and you If you like high capacity...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, GMR, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Can we build the unfillable disk drive?

Can we build the unfillable disk drive?Of course, if they do.......backing it up will be a bitch!Yes. One already exists, its called a WOMWrite Only Memories are excellent for infinite storage. The issue is that you can't retrieve the data.Can you build a drive so largethat God himself could not...

Tags: disk drive, disk

Discussion threads 2007-09-24