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. [...]

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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. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

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Sellers are currently offering 3807 used hard drives on eBay.com alone. Add 5303 used desktop PCs, 975 Apple Desktops and thousands of other used devices like digital cameras or mobile phones that might contain data that has not been properly deleted by its previous owner. According to Techradar 66% of the used hard drives were [...]

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Analyzing drive health with SpeedFan is a guest post by Rarst who is running his own tech blog Rarst.net, a blog about software and IT-related web resources. Definitely worth adding to a RSS News Feed reader. SpeedFan is well known program in the category of system monitoring. It is a very good tool for controlling [...]

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I ordered and added the OCZ 64 Gigabyte Core Series Sata II Solid State Drive to my computer and have been playing around with it for some time now. This Solid State Drive has some serious advantages over conventional hard drives. The boot speed is faster and you also notice that some applications load up [...]

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I first thought about getting a SSD (Solid State Disk) drive for my new computer that I assembled at the beginning of this year. The SSD drives were rather expensive and only available with capacities of 16 or 32 Gigabytes which probably would have been enough. Far more pressing was the state of the performance [...]

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Dante send in this little tip and I thought I would share it with everyone. I have been writing about a program called USB Drive Letter Manager before which made it very easy to assign specific drive letters to USB devices. I mentioned that it is possible to assign drive letters to certain USB devices in Windows using Disk Management as well but did not comment on that further.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

I’m really excited about this new technology that will make its way and replace those magnetic hard drives in the long run. Solid State hard drives are based on flash memory which you usually find in most mp3 players these days. They have several advantages in comparison to magnetic hard drives.

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