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- Video: Crusher destroys Hard Drives in seconds
- A few weeks back, I needed to destroy one of my personal hard drives. The drive had failed, and being paranoid about data security, I didn't want to ship the unit off to the local computer recycler without first rendering the drive unusable. So, I broke out the screwdrivers, Channellock...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Video, PD-8400, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Video: Degaussing machine erases Hard Drive data in less than 10 seconds
- In my previous IT Dojo post, "Crusher destroys hard drives in seconds", I featured a video of a commercial device that destroys hard drives in about 75 seconds. If you want to erase the data in under 10 seconds, then a degaussing machine might be a better option. ...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Video, HD-3W High Energy Pulse Degausser, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Physically destroy your hard disk for security
- Have a whole bunch of hard disks with potentially confidential information on-board? Another solution - other than doing lots of tedious data wipes, might be to physically destroy them with a device like the patent-pending Hard Disk Crusher by EDR Solutions. The Hard Disk Crusher promises...
- Tags: Security, Hard Drive, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Western Digital releases new 10,000 rpm hard disk
- Western Digital has released a new 10,000 rpm hard drive called the VelociRaptor, which aced the battery of performance tests that PC World's Test Center threw at it. With a MTBF (mean time between failure) of 1.2 million hours, this drive is entirely suited for the enterprise, though WD...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., VelociRaptor, WD, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Volume Serial Number Editor (exe)
- KRyLack Volume Serial Number Editor can modify your disk drive's Volume Serial Number (not hard disk's physical serial which you can find at back of your hard disk), the format of Volume Serial Number is: XXXX-XXXX (X maybe 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B,...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Volume, KRyLack Software, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- Google Research: Temperature not a major factor in hard disk failures
- Logic and conventional wisdom have always pointed to temperature being one of the key environmental factors affecting the reliability of hard disk drives. That's not the case, however, according to research done by Google on the hard disks in their data centers. Conclusion:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Disk Size Manager (exe)
- Disk Size Manager - a powerful hard disk space manager for Windows. Using DSM you can keep track of your hard disks space to ensure its most efficient use. With its 2D/3D pie and bar charts as well as detailed descriptions in words, DSM provides you with the complete information...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Manager, WebExtractor System, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- Top IT news for April 21: XP SP3, Internet to hit capacity in 2010, Muni Wi-Fi is over
- This news roundup is a joint venture between TechRepublic and ZDNet that publishes every weekday morning. For breaking news and top stories, follow Tech Sanity Check and ZDNet's Between the Lines. TechRepublic Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet Ad-funded software: A potential security vector? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hard Drive, Information Technology, Municipal Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows XP, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Instant Communication, Internet, Help Desk, Linux, It Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- 50MB of Data - For the low low price of $100
- The hard drive blew out on my Tandy 1000 at home not too long ago. Seeing as how it's an XT-class machine, that means that replacement hard drive options are limited. I can either use an MFM hard drive or an RLL hard drive. There are some XT-IDE drives available,...
- Tags: Hard Drive, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- CrystalDiskInfo (zip)
- CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Monitoring, Health Care, Crystal Dew World, CrystalDiskInfo, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-04-17
- Voodoo Pumps Up PC Gaming Performance With Hitachi Travelstar Hard Drives
- Voodoo Technology Inc. is located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Voodoo's products, nearly all of which use Hitachi hard disk drives, sit at the top of a total video gaming market the at had 2002 revenues of more than $28 billion. Over the next decade, analysts forecast it will surpass the...
- Tags: Voodoo, Hard Drive, PC, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Capricorn Technologies - Redefining the Economics of Storage With Hitachi Hard Disk Drives
- Founded in 2004, Capricorn Technologies is a commercial outgrowth of the Internet Archive a non-profit organization founded by industry luminary Brewster Kahle with the lofty goal of universal access to all human knowledge. After building its first few terabyte systems, the Internet Archive team came to a stunning realization: Not...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Function Follows Form at iRiver With Hitachi Travelstar 1.8-Inch Hard Drive
- In a world crowded with portable digital media devices, iRiver America Inc. is the "Keeper of Cool". iRiver wanted to be the first to come up with a consistent look and feel across the entire product family. iRiver's designers knew they were onto something, though, when they were shown the...
- Tags: Function, Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., iRiver, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- University of New Hampshire's 'Project 54' Helps Keep Troopers' Eyes on the Road With Help From Hitachi Endurastar Hard Drives
- Distracted drivers may be the butt of many a popular joke - simultaneously chatting on cell phones, fiddling with CD players and drinking lattes while steering their cars through rush-hour traffic - but distraction is no laughing matter to law enforcement officers. What really matters are quick eyes, hands and...
- Tags: Distraction, Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Audavi Uses Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" Drives to Invent "No Compromise" Removable Storage Solution
- For more than 20 years, the world of removable storage has been dominated by floppy disks, tape, CDs and DVDs and a handful of exotic devices. Now a Milpitas, Calif. company is taking a fresh look at an old friend: hard disk drives. Using Travelstar hard disk drives from Hitachi...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Removable Storage, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Case Study: TRIZ Solves a Hard Drive Reliability Problem
- TRIZ is the Russian acronym for The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ is a unique knowledge-based technology for accelerated development of design concepts. The drive needs to be protected against stronger external force. This could be achieved by replacing the current latch magnet with a stronger one. But the...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Magnet, TRIZ, TRIZ Methodology
- Case studies
- Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: Power Failure Surge Brown Out
- Hard drive recovery from electrical issues requires special tools and training. Hard drives these days require more advanced techniques to solve electronic hard drive failures. When a surged disk comes in for hard drive recovery often times the electronics are fused together making the pcb board unusable. It is almost...
- Tags: Hard Drive
- Case studies
- BDD Zero Touch Deployment of Windows XP/Office 2003 - Demo 5: Workstation Deployment: A New Hard Drive
- In this webcast, you will learn how to create an installation CD and deploy an OS image through RIS to a new system with a blank hard drive.
- Tags: Deployment, Hard Drive, Workstation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites
- Webcasts
- The Quantum Leap Within Hard Disk Drives
- The authors warn regular users of personal computers who have to restore their data on a damaged hard drive: "They have only one recovery attempt". The probability of data recovery decreases by second degree depending upon the number of visits to service centres. Lots of very serious specialized service centres...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Disk Drive, Quantum Corp.
- White papers
- Leading Defense and Aerospace Contractor Protects Mission-Critical Data Using Full Hard Drive Encryption
- This case study details the experience of a global aerospace and defense contractor as they deployed full disk encryption software from GuardianEdge Technologies to secure sensitive data and provide the highest level of assurance to their government partners. The software solution, Encryption Plus Hard Disk, was successfully deployed to thousands...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Aerospace, Encryption, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Case studies
