There is not really a lot that users can do to improve the performance of a hard drive on a computer system. This however is changing currently with the introduction of the first Advanced Format hard drives that some PC manufacturers have started to add to their systems. The main difference is that AF drives [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Why Smaller Really Is Getting Better
There have been two recent advancements in technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to put a lot more punch in smaller packages. Intel released news about a new 3d transistor technology, and Seagate announced breaking the 1 TB per platter hard drive barrier. Both of these announcements show the drive for companies to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drives With Host Authorization
The best way to protect data on one of your storage devices is to encrypt it. There are several free solutions out there, for instance by using the Open Source encryption software True Crypt, to protect data from unauthorized access. While it is not a problem for tech savvy users like you and me to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Use 3TB Hard Drives On Windows XP
All hard drive manufacturers have announced the first wave of 3TB (that’s 3 Terabytes) hard drives in the first half of 2010, and first 3TB hard drives like the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB are now available. These high capacity hard drives will work fine for users running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Drive-Thru Disk Management Software
Drive-Thru is a portable disk management software for Windows. The software offers direct disk related configuration changes in an easy to use interface. The program displays different options on the startup window, and in three other tabs. In the drive security tab it is possible to hide drives from the computer, lock drives and disallow [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use Drive Manager To Manage And Identify Drives
Drive Manager is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that helps users managing and identifying connected drives. Drives in this regard is every hardware device with its own drive letter which includes hard drives, dvd drives, removable storage devices such as USB sticks or network drives. The software program displays a list [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Hard Drives Space Visualization
What are the names of the five biggest folders on your computer system? Windows users will have a hard time gathering this information about their hard drives as the operating system comes without an onboard tool to gather those information from connected hard drives. Third party developers have created dozens of tools that provide these [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Optimize Slow Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives are build into many computer systems these days. They are build into netbooks for example, are offered by web hosts to run in dedicated servers or purchased by tech enthusiasts. SSD are basically a new generation of hard drives which will eventually replace the existing ones that are build into the majority [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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SSD Security: Erase Solid State Drives Data
While it is still not common sense to securely erase data on hard drives (read: Securely Erase Files) before computers or hard drives are sold or given away the matter becomes even more complicated where SSD – Solid State Drives – are concerned. The positive aspect of Solid State Drives is that data cannot be [...]