Posts Tagged ‘hard drive’

How to use Active@ KillDisk

Active@ KillDisk is a free software suite for Windows that allows you to completely destroy all data on a hard disk along with some other really cool features.  You may want to run kill disk on a drive that you are getting rid of or selling that may also have your personal data on it.  Old [...]

RAID Redundancy

RAID or Redundant Array of Independant Disks is a technology for data to be stored to avoid failures through the use of redundancy.  Data is distributed to a number of disks that act as one logical disk.  The scheme for which data is stored depends on the RAID level. To understand RAID we first need [...]

Use RAID to minimize the impact of disk failure

RAID stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks.  RAID controllers can configure physical hard drives to be seen in different ways.  For instance, RAID can be used to make two different physical hard drives mirrors of each other creating one singular logical drive.  RAID can also be used to make two or more drives appears as [...]