Archive for December 15th, 2009

Samsung launches 2TB external hard drive with eSATA

Samsung Electronics has launched a new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives Story Station Plus, which it claims to feature an external serial ATA (eSATA) interface to allow faster data transfer. The 3.0-gigabit per second (Gbps) drives are available in up to 2-terabyte (TB) densities.

The company claims that the addition of the eSATA interface raises [...]

Recover Data from SD Card

Secure Digital (SD) is small and thin but high capacity memory card, which has storage capacity in the range of 1MB to 4GB. SD cards are used in small portable devices like digital cameras, camcorders, audio players, mobile phones, etc. to enhance their memory. They are designed to support various files like image files, audio [...]

RAID Data Recovery Prevention

If you have spent the time to increase your computer’s performance by setting up hardware RAID array, you owe it to yourself to invest a little extra time and effort in maintaining the hard disks in your setup. Following these tips will help reduce data disaster recovery in the future.

1. If you are copying information [...]

RAID Can Fail Too and Recovery

Redundant Array of Independent Disk or RAID is the combination of two or more drives linked together to from a single high capacity drive restoration device. Popularly known for its reliability and superior performance, RAID distributes the data among several disks, which is considered as a single disk by the operating system. But, sometimes even [...]

Brief Introduction to Hard Drive Data Recovery

One of the most important points for any computer user to remember is to always back up your data. As much as personal computing has advanced over the past 20 years, hard drives still fail. Hard Drives are an amazing piece of mechanical engineering, as then spin (sometimes continuously) at around 120 times per second [...]

Recover a dead hard drive using dd

Fri, Mar 4 2005 at 7:56AM PST • Contributed by: Anonymous

The Unix program dd is a disk copying until that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it’s copying, caring nothing about file system type, files, or anything else. It’s [...]

Data Recovery Can Be The Solution for Media Failure

Almost everyone has experienced it at one time or another. The symptoms range from that clicking noise produced by an otherwise functioning hard drive or a hard drive that is simply no longer being recognized by the computer. The results can be devastating to the end user no matter whether that user is an individual [...]