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 of [...]
Use Drive Manager To Manage And Identify Drives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
OCZ Z-Drive
One of the latest hardware trends seems to be Solid State Drive (SSD) Raids. We already mentioned the 24 monster SSD Raid video that was uploaded to Youtube as part of Samsungs campaign to promote their SSD drives. This is obviously nothing that end users will ever user as it is hardly affordable and practical. [...]
Enable SATA Hot Swap
Hot Swap, or hot swapping, describes the process of connecting or removing an SATA drive from a running computer system. This hot swap technology has to be supported by the SATA controller and by the hardware driver in the operating system to work. The device specifications should state if the device is how swap capable. [...]
Optimize Windows For Solid State Drives Usage
It might take some years from now on before most new computers will be shipped with Solid State Drives instead of conventional platter driven hard drives but the change is inevitable. SSDs of the current generation already achieve top read speeds but usually lack behind in write speeds. There are however a few tips on [...]
