by Amit Bhawani
on 22. Dec, 2007
in Hard Drives
Do you have corrupted files on your computer? Are you always feeling insecure about the data on your computer? First you need to check out the corrupt system files on your computer for impaired files or reinstall your windows or may be get a new hard disk drive because of all this frustration.
You can do [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 28. Apr, 2008
in Hard Drives
Last week i purchased a new Pocked sized 2.5″ External Hard Disk Drive in order to keep my laptop clean and move all the movies, songs and heavy sized softwares into the external drive and defragment my laptop[Wipe off data] to increase the processing speed and decrease the applications loading time.
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by Amit Bhawani
on 11. May, 2008
in Hard Drives
FAT & NTFS are basicaly two data file systems generally used in the windows computers for disk management. FAT ” File Allocation Table is a very old file system technology which was used in the earlier days when the low process using slow computers used on run on FAT file system. FAT supported Windows 95, [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 12. May, 2008
in Hard Drives
Data Backup is very important in todays world because the data stored on your computer is very important and its very hard to recover it in case of corrupted files which may be formed due to bad clusters in your FAT/NTFS File system
There are several services available which can offer you with automatic data backup [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 16. May, 2008
in Hard Drives
Low Disk Space Warning is not a new message and this is a general notification which is shown by the windows operating system when any of your hard disk drive’s partition is out of space and cannot accept any new data into it. There is no serious problem when this kind of message is displayed [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 02. Jun, 2008
in Hard Drives
I couldn’t use my Computer from the last night. I had to send some urgent mails to my parents, but I couldn’t .When I booted last night. My hard disk drive made a very scary sound. It opened finally, but I don’t want to use it without knowing the reason behind that sound. Is there [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 23. Jun, 2008
in Hard Drives
There are many reasons why should you defragment your computer’s HDD. it not only increases the speed of laptop but also increases the performance. Generally the scenario is that when you work on your computer you keep updating the files, deleting some files and uploading some new stuff which is loaded in your hard disk. [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 09. Jul, 2008
in Hard Drives
Smart card is a pocket-sized card with integrated circuits in it which can process information. It is also called as chip card or integrated circuit card(ICC).This card is made of plastic generally PVC,but some times ABS(Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene which is a common thermoplastic).Smart cards typically hold 2,000 to 8,000 electronic bytes of data—roughly several pages [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 02. Aug, 2008
in Hard Drives
Is basically the creation of the separate divisions of the hard disk. The directories and files can be stored in different categories once the disc is divided into different partitions. Although more control can be had by more partitions but beyond a certain degree it can become quite a mess to manage multiple partitions. The [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 03. Aug, 2008
in Hard Drives
It is a kind of a hard disk drive that is connected to the computer as an external unit and is portable. The connection of the external hard disk to the computer is made by using a cable that is compatible with smaller computer system interface. The commercial hard discs used first were too big [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 30. Aug, 2008
in Hard Drives
Its a very easy job to download movies or mp3 songs to a hard disk drive but when the time comes for data backup its one of the most hard job because its not as easy as storing files on a hard drive.
First of all you should think why do you need a backup software [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 06. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
The Serial ATA is what followed the Parallel ATA. It is considered to be the next generation drive interface developed as an upgraded version of its predecessors.
If you have ever peeked inside the body of your computer system you are sure to have come across certain flat 40 wire parallel cables that are used to [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 07. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
A tape library is a storage device found in the computer storage department. It contains one or more tape devices along with a number of slots in which it can hold tape cartridges and a barcode reader. The purpose of the barcode reader is to identify the tape cartridges. It also has an automated procedure [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 09. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
The storage device known as tape media also goes by the name of tape drive or streamer. It functions as a storage device that reads and writes the data which is stored on a magnetic tape. The primary use of tape media is for the purpose of archival storage of the data that is stored [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 09. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
A back up is created by the process of disk imaging. In case of a computer crashing down a backup provides the user to reinstall all the software and configuration settings that have been lost up until the time that the duplication was made. A differential backup is one that seeks to overcome the gap [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 09. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 09. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
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. [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 11. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 achieve [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 16. Sep, 2008
in Hard 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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 30. Sep, 2008
in Hard Drives
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. [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 20. Oct, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 24. Oct, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 when compared [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 25. Oct, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 30. Oct, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 15. Nov, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 16. Nov, 2008
in Hard 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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 06. Dec, 2008
in Hard Drives
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 to [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 03. Feb, 2009
in Hard Drives
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 – [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 26. Feb, 2009
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 25. Jun, 2009
in Hard Drives
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 magnetic [...]
by Jyoti Bhawani
on 22. Sep, 2009
in Hard Drives
Smart Defrag is a free disk utility that reorganizes or reallocates the storage on a computer’s hard disk by bringing together files or parts of files to optimize the machine’s performance. Smart defrag helps in defragmentation to make the computer stable and more efficient. This disk utility has many more other functions aside from defragmentation. [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 03. Jan, 2010
in Hard Drives
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 [...]
by Amit Bhawani
on 10. Feb, 2010
in Hard Drives
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 [...]