10 month ago
Cameron Moll : USB hard drive dock - Thumb drives and external hard drives? Bah. Just dock the hard drive.
Richard Rutter : USB Disk Dock - Lets you plug in (normally internal) hard drives.
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11 month ago
nelson : jwz - PSA: backups - <3 JWZ
Rod Begbie : jwz - PSA: backups - "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." [via] #
43folders : jwz - PSA: backups - "OMG, three drives is so expensive! That sounds like a hassle!" Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway. via http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/hard-drive-failure.html
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19 month ago
nelson : Google disk failures - Survey of 100,000 hard drives and their failure modes
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20 month ago
43folders : Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net - I'll almost certainly have a fuller post about this soon, but for now I'll say "thank you thank you, Greg!" Awesome.
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : My Book Premium Edition 500 GB Hard Drives - 500Gb External USB/Firewire drive, with a nifty ambient capacity gauge on the front. [via] #
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Google GDrive is not a rumor - "With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthou
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Britain wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives - The issue is BitLocker Drive Encryption, slated for inclusion in Vista. The system can encrypt a user's entire hard drive, making it almost impossible to access data if the drive is removed from the computer or otherwise tampered with
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34 month ago
kayodeok : How to install a hard drive - Lifehacker - How to install a hard drive
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36 month ago
kayodeok : The hard drive is the new bling - Flash animation from hitachi
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Partition Logic - Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Hide physical drives in Windows Explorer - Hiding the individual physical/removable/optical drives in My computer is possible in Windows XP using the "NoDrives" registry entry. This is equivalent to the Hide these specified drives in My Computer Group Policy
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Holographic Memory - Unlike CDs and DVDs, which store data bit by bit on their surfaces, holographic discs store data a page at a time in three dimensions, enabling huge leaps in capacity and access speed
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Ed Bott: Tip of the day: Build your own external hard drive - Tip of the day: Build your own external hard drive
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Linux.com | Best practices for the Linux home office, part 3 - In this final installment, we'll talk about protecting the data on your hard drive.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Are Computers without Hard Drives Useless? Doubtful - What can be done on a computer without a hard drive?
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Step-by-Step to Windows RAID using CoLinux - Windows XP Pro does not support RAID-5 through software without some system level hacks, and even then will not allow you to build an array on external USB-2 drives
deusx : A1E1 - Step-by-Step to Windows RAID using CoLinux - "And the best way I've found to do that is to use coLinux to host a Linux Software array and serve it up with Samba."
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Anatomy of a Hard Disk Drive - We disassembled a hard drive to show you the main components you will find on a hard drive
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37 month ago
kayodeok : My dead hard drive story - This is the story of how I ressurrected my hard drive
deusx : My dead hard drive story - I don't usually consider swapping hard drive logic boards as a way to fix things.
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Wipe usb drive software by Proxymis Multimedia and others - A bunch of useful USB-drive-oriented software for windows
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38 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : RAID water coolers - RAID water coolers: rendundant wet stuff
kayodeok : RAID for Dummies - A funny take on describing RAID
Matthew M. Boedicker : RAID illustrated
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Seagate Preps Hard-disk Encryption Technology - "Before data gets placed on the media, it goes through the encryption, if you steal the drive and are a lab that specializes in retrieving data on the media, it doesn't matter. When you get the data off, it's gibberish,"
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Tiny Molecule Could Shrink Computers, Phones, iPods - Chemists at Glasgow University have engineered a tiny molecule which can store huge amounts of data in very small spaces, meaning the physical size of digital memory cards and hard drives could shrink dramatically in the next few years
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Beginners Guides: Formatting and Partitioning a Hard Drive - Installing a hard drive for the first time? Need to partition a current drive into smaller disks? You can do it, and we can show you how
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Police hard drive sold on eBay - A computer hard drive, containing confidential data from the Brandenburg police in Germany, has been auctioned over eBay for 20 euros, according to a report by Spiegel, a leading weekly German newspaper. It was bought by a student.
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42 month ago
kayodeok : The Inner World of the Hard Drive - ExtremeTech's piece on the inner workings of your hard drive explains what exactly makes up one of the most crucial pieces of hardware in your machine and how every single bit gets recorded and read
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