printToday, I got my old Fujitsu 2.16GB HDD (model:MPB3021AT-E) to be dead. So, opened it step by step and studying what was inside it. First opened the upper cover by unscrewing all screws , and exposed the naked disk. In principle a hard drive is very simple. In a typical older hard drive, a motor [...]
How to Format USB Drive – Fix Errors & Backup Data
The computer market is advancing at a very high speed and these days we have Portable USB Drives which can allow you to backup data upto 64Gb in a small device, hence its very each to buy a new one and store information in it. But if you want to continue using your old Memory [...]
Hard Drive Fail – Click of Death Anthem
Whenever a Computer’s Hard Drive Fails, it makes a clicking sound which cannot be clearly heard in the loud environment, but Sandisk has come forward with a Anthem on the ‘Click on Death’ based on the sounds made by the Common HDD. While Sandisk recommends you to buy SSD Drives because they are more secure [...]
How to Erase Your Hard Drive Completely
Before you sell away or throw your old Hard Disk Drive you need to make sure that you have completely erased it and this is important because you could have copies of your Important data stored in it and this can go to the wrong hands. Just doing a normal format is not really going [...]
Find Bad Sectors in Hard Drive with Windows Surface Scanner
Bad sectors in Hard Drive is now a common issue and its just increasing, which is the reason its important for you to scan down the total hard drive and check out if there are any bad sectors or not. This is important because if there are bad sectors in your HDD, then the data [...]
1TB Hard Disk Drives Review
What are 1 (one) Terabyte Hard drives Computers are meant for processing vast amounts of data in a relatively short time with a freer access to all the data. This means that the computer must have access to databases stored in physical storage devices that can store electronic data in a vast amount. Starting with [...]
Regain Hard Disk Space & Clean Up Data
This tip is useful for most Windows Operating System based PC users where in they want to regain the hard disk storage space instead of buying a new Hard Disk Drive. Currently you would find these options only in Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. If you find that your Disk Drives are [...]
Seagate High Capacity & Power Efficiency HDD
Constellation The Constellation 2.5-inch hard drive is offered in capacities of 160GB and 500GB with both 3 Gbps SATA and new SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gb/s speeds. As the first SAS 2.0 nearline drive, the Constellation hard drive enables larger external storage topologies, 100% faster data throughput and higher signal strength over greater distances [...]
LG XD4 3.5″ External Hard Disk Drive
LG cannot stop itself in the External HDD wars and after big leaders in the market like Transcend and western digital have been launching many models with increasing capacity and lowered prices, LG has launched a 3.5″ HDD named as the XD4. This new Hard Disk Drive is said to have a unique cooling system [...]
How to Defragment Internal & External Hard Disk Drives
We have been trying out and testing different hard drive defragmentation tools and applications to speed up the PC and increase its performance and most of them did work out really well. This time lets try out software called ‘O&O Defrag’ which is going to activate the hidden performance of your PC and optimized your [...]
Defragment to Increase Computer Performance & Speed Up Applications
Diskeeper is one good tool which can help you defragment your hard drive’s and make sure that all your applications are running on normal speed than slower speeds. Whenever your computer goes very slow with continiously hanging you should not be worried about the processor, mother board or your Ram but should try to defragment [...]
External Hard Drive Security Guide
External Hard Drive Security is very important for taking up a strong backup for the purposes of taking up proper and sound information’s’ storage which can ensure your non destruction of your storage base. Sometimes, even when you have PH.D thesis on your laptop suddenly, when a hard drive crashes, hopes for recovery are forgotten [...]
Web Drives Guide
The advent of the Internet has greatly changed the way we not only communicate with each other. It has changed the way we conduct business, do financial transactions with our local banks and also store our files and other important forms of data. Instead of merely storing files and other data in external storage devices [...]
Transcend 2.5-inch 500GB Portable Hard Drives Review
After western digital, its transcend which has entered this USB drives market with a stylish looking 500Gb hard disk. These new hard drives will be not just stylish but would also have higher protection to make sure these drives dont crash in case you drop it while travelling. The price point is seriously very high [...]
Partitioning Computer’s Hard Disk Drive
Partitioning Computer’s Hard Disk Drive is known as an offshoot of segregated divisions of a hard disk drive by utilization of editors of partition. In case these segregations take place directories and files of different subdivisions may be organized in stored form in different segregated partitions. More partitions provide greater control but extreme controls may [...]
Common Hard Drive Failures
Do you own a computer? If you do, have you ever experienced a crash of your system’s hard drive? I am sure that it is a terrifying and frustrating experience. This is because if the data of the computer cannot be read due to hardware problem then the computer is of no use to us. [...]
Western Digital 500GB 2.5″ Mini USB Hard Disk Drives
The western digital hard disks are really cool in looks and great in performance. I own a 160 GB WD HDD and the best part of using these hard drives is that you can use them as a Pen drive because they dont need any extra power source nor cost you really high like the [...]
What is Holographic Versatile Disc?
Technological developments are moving at an alarmingly quick pace. The Holographic Versatile Disc is one of the latest developments to have hit the scene. Basically HVD is the optical disk technology for the next generation. This next generation technology is still in the research phase at the moment. The object that the developers aim to [...]
What is Hard Disk Imaging?
Disk imaging is the process through which you copy the contents of one data storage device or medium and then transfer it to another similar kind of medium or device. To understand it in the simplest sense disk imaging can be said to be the creating of a duplicate of a computer’s hard disk drive. [...]
What is Online Data Storage?
Recent developments have enabled users to store their data on the internet. This is precisely what online data storage is all about. The rapid technological advancements taking place have brought the price of broadband internet down. This has been coupled with better service and better speed which has driven many people to purchase online data [...]