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- Magnetic Hard Disk Drives Recovery: Leading the Way in Storage
- The development and evolution of hard-disk drives is one of the outstanding technological success stories of the past 40 years. In a data storage world dominated by paper and magnetic tape and punch cards, RAMAC was the world's first commercial hard-disk drive. In the four decades since RAMAC's debut, improvements...
- Tags: Innovation, Hard Drive, Data Storage, Disk Drive, Recovery, Storage Management, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Management
- White papers
- Efficient Native Storage Systems for Semi-Structured Data
- Semi-structured data is becoming commonplace with examples such as XML, Bioinformatics suffix-trees, scientific computing data, and even generic directory-file hierarchies. Such semi-structured data must be stored on mass storage devices for persistence as well as cost-efficiency. Current approaches, which map semi-structured data to relational databases or simply use flat files,...
- Tags: Florida International University, Disk Drive, Storage Device, Storage System, Semi-Structured Data, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers
- Understanding RAID
- This paper described various types of disk arrays, referred to by the acronym RAID. The basic idea of RAID was to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive SLED. Additionally, this array of drives...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- White papers
- 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
- 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
- Adaptive Battery Life Extender
- When it comes to mobile computing, battery life is very important. Since a major user of battery power is the disk drive, it makes sense to ensure that the disk drive uses as little power as possible. That's why Adaptive Battery Life Extender was invented. And that's why the latest...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Battery, Engineering
- White papers
- 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
- 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
- An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives
- The reliability measures in today's disk drive-based storage systems focus predominantly on protecting against complete disk failures. Previous disk reliability studies have analyzed empirical data in an attempt to better understand and predict disk failure rates. Yet, very little is known about the incidence of latent sector errors i.e., errors...
- Tags: Disk Failure, Disk, Disk Drive, Analysis, Sector Error
- White papers 2007-06-16
- Iomega acquires China disk drive manufacturer
- Iomega has acquired ExelStor Great Wall Technology, a hard drive manufacturer based in Shenzhen of China via a stock swap. No cash will change hands. Iomega CEO Jonathan Huberman will continue in his present positions, while Eddie Lui, who is currently CEO of ExcelStor, will become executive...
- Tags: Iomega Corp., Disk, Disk Drive, Government, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Dell Inspiron 1100 - Hard Disk Drives
- All of a sudden my laptop's hard drive is not functional. When I start the computer I get this error message stating that the HD does not exist. I run the diagnostics to repair the HD to no avail. Do I have to replace the hard drive? Is there another...
- Tags: Notebooks, disk drive, Dell Computer Corp., gustavia@..., hard drive, laptop computer, Dell Inspiron
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Nanotech slated to replace magnetic disk drives
- According to Michael Kozicki, a researcher at Arizona State University, nanotechnology is slated to replace current generation magnetic disk drives used in iPods and laptops within the next five to 10 years. The result would be storage devices that are more durable, lighter, and faster. Kozicki says he's...
- Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Cell, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Nanotech slated to replace magnetic disk drives
- With nanotechnology coming over the horizon, is the magnetic aka Winchester hard disk drive truly on the way out?Would depend on cost effectiveness won't it...I mean at a business level, that would be the most important consideration...That and reliability...It should be the same for the average user...If a cost effective...
- Tags: Semiconductors, paulmah@..., nanotechnology, hard drive, disk drive, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- DVD Device Lock (zip)
- Hide or restrict access to removable media devices such as CD, DVD, floppy, flash, and USB drives, and deny access to partitions of your hard disk drives with the program. Stop copying data between removable media and hard disk drives, deny access to removable media, protect your PC against unauthorized...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Media, DVD, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-09-20
- Disk Drive Administrator (zip)
- Hide, lock and protect your local, network, Floppy and USB drives, and disable the AutoRun feature for them. Control access to your drives by clicking on the checkboxes located within the group boxes representing them. Disable the AutoRun feature based on drive types to disable, for instance, only all USB...
- Tags: Administrator, Disk, Disk Drive, IM, USB Flash Drive, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-08-16
- Easy Disk Drive Safeguard (zip)
- Use Easy Disk Drive Safeguard to hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for them. A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users from changing the security settings you enforce. Version 2 may include unspecified...
- Tags: Security, Disk, Disk Drive
- Software downloads 2007-07-16
- Tranferring large files from on board disk drive to USB drive.
- When trying to transfer a very large file 10 GB I get the error message, "There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again."I then get the option to use disk cleanup. The problem is my removable USB drive,...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Microsoft Windows XP, stevencla@..., disk, USB flash drive, board, disk drive
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Building a computer
- I recently took my hdd from my other computer to fix it in a old computer (Celeron 566E processor)which was working condition. Now there are nothing left in the motherboard. I fix 2 stick of RAM and fixed this Quantum LM20 hdd to it. I tried to to boot up...
- Tags: Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows XP, Mycroft, wahchee2001@..., Old Mycroft, hard drive, motherboard, disk drive, disk, PC, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Disk Drive Invalid Action Error
- I have a desktop with a DVD/CDRW drive labeled drive D. I'm running XP. If I put a 'manufactured' disk in the drive - like a game or software application, etc. everything works fine. If I put a blank, writable disk into the drive I get the...
- Tags: disk drive, tennis15@..., disk
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
