Top Tip: Does formatting a hard disk really erase all data?

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VIA offers hard disk data scrub code

VIA offers hard disk data scrub code 09/15/2004 09:34 AM
Truly erase deleted confidential data

News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator

News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator 03/30/2005 05:41 PM
Diskology Inc. on Wednesday introduced a smaller version of its Disk Jockey, a hardware appliance that duplicates, backs up and diagnoses hard disk drives. It retails for US$329.

Franklin Data Releases Break-Thru
Technology to Help Law Firms,
Corporations, and Government Agencies to
Capture Lotus Notes Rich Text Formatting
(RTF) for Use in Electronic Data
Discovery.

Franklin Data Releases Break-Thru
Technology to Help Law Firms,
Corporations, and Government Agencies to
Capture Lotus Notes Rich Text Formatting
(RTF) for Use in Electronic Data
Discovery. 07/28/2004 02:21 AM
New Lotus Notes offering helps demonstrate Franklin Data's leading technologies by processing the full rich text format of Lotus Notes E-mails, a continuing complexity of its competitors. [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

Suggestion: erase data posted to the Web

Suggestion: erase data posted to the Web 07/07/2004 04:08 PM
Andrew Daviel (Jul 07 2004)

Sarah's Download of the Day: Erase All
Data

Sarah's Download of the Day: Erase All
Data 09/09/2004 10:05 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 10 2004 2:35AM GMT

Re: Suggestion: erase data posted to the
Web

Re: Suggestion: erase data posted to the
Web 07/08/2004 12:32 PM
Nick Lamb (Jul 08 2004)

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

Top Tip: Can't format hard disk!

Top Tip: Can't format hard disk! 01/26/2004 03:03 PM
I have this hard drive that cannot be reformatted. Whenever reformatting is taking place the hard disk reader head stops reading after certain sectors. When the "dir" command is used to view the disk, the files are shown but not the total about of bytes used up or free. The cursor seems to stop before this infomation is shown. Could it be that the FAT table has been damaged.

Top Tip: 2MB or 8MB hard disk cache?

Top Tip: 2MB or 8MB hard disk cache? 01/22/2004 02:20 PM
Tonight I`m buying a new WD hard drive expansion for my home PC and am wondering what`s the diff between 2mb cache and 8mb cache(beside 6mb`s)? Does this extra cache allow for more what ?????? The tech specs show the same between the two drives,read/write speeds etc. . PLEASE. You tell me. THANKS FOR THE HELP... Dan.

Hard disk goes kaboom

Hard disk goes kaboom 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
My hard disk fried last night. I'm using one of my "spares" while I download RedHat 8.0. If you're waiting for something from me... it will probably take the rest of the day before I'm back online and able to read and answer your e-mail. <sigh>...

Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk

Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk 06/24/2004 05:04 AM
Okay, let me get this straight... My GMail account is good for 1GB. I could probably use some of my next invites to get myself a few more accounts, let's say 4. It seems reasonable. That's 5GB of e-mail storage. My Yahoo Mail Plus account has 2GB of storage (employee perk). I could add a few more "normal" Y! Mail accounts at 100MB each. 10 would get me another gig, bringing my Yahoo total to 3GB and my grand total...

Top Tip: Sweep my hard disk clean?

Top Tip: Sweep my hard disk clean? 04/16/2004 02:18 PM
I was wondering if anyone could recommend a program to wipe my HDD clean--OS and all. Honestly, I don't even know if such programs exist, but I was just curious.

Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk

Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk 05/09/2004 10:16 AM

Internet Hard Disk with GmailFS

Internet Hard Disk with GmailFS 08/28/2004 08:52 PM
That's right, the pieces for the previously mentioned webmail basead Internet hard disk are coming together. The release of GmailFS provides a relatively seamless filesystem on top of your Gmail account. However, given that Google is being evil with Gmail now, there's no telling how long this will last. See Also: Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk...

How to make more room on your hard disk

How to make more room on your hard disk 11/16/2003 11:49 PM
ZDNet Nov 16 2003 10:46PM ET

Top Tip: Hard disk config for file
server?

Top Tip: Hard disk config for file
server? 02/19/2004 12:44 PM
I am planning to get a new file server which also will be a dc. It will be installed with Win2003 advance server and currently I have 2 Win2000 servers which are DCs.What is the recommended h/w configuration for the harddisks ? how many hdds for the OS, ide or scsi, raid 1 or 5 ?

Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk

Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk 06/25/2004 12:52 AM
Well, that was fast. According to ResearchBuzz, Ask Jeeves will be increasing their free and paid web mail offerings to compete with GMail, Y! Mail, and so on. This new Internet Hard Disk is getting bigger by the day. Rock on!...

Another Hard Disk Sony Video Player?

Another Hard Disk Sony Video Player? 08/02/2004 10:25 AM

So there's stink about this one possibly being a fake, but there's a new Sony hard disk-based video player on Japanese website CD Report that claims to have a 20GB hard drive crammed into a unit just a hair bigger than the iPod mini (hence, the fake rumors). If it is legit, it is supposed to be released sometime around Christmas for a price in the neighborhood of $450 - not a bad price if it ends up being the real deal.

Of course, Sony learned from the HMP-A1 that people might actually like players that could support native MP3 playback, so the new unit is rumored to have only ATRAC support (that means, basically, that this thing will be a dud as a music player).

Re ad - The SONY next machine HDD prayer estimate (Japanese) [Nifty via PMW via DAPreview]

Update: Okay, we're talking fake here. Babelfish failed me and the intern is probably curled up in a nest of barely-legal college hotties. At least he better be.

i-Bead 1000 1.5GB Hard Disk Player

i-Bead 1000 1.5GB Hard Disk Player 07/09/2004 01:27 PM

South Korean firm i-Bead is releasing a new 1.5 gigabyte hard disk player with a built-in 65k-color screen. Although there's no word on price yet, the feature set looks nice, with a built-in FM tuner and recorder, line-in recording, text viewing (something that is missing from way too many players), and USB 2.0, as well as a variety of major audio formats. And the best news? It looks like the i-Bead 1000 will be making it to Europe and the US; previous i-Bead players have been Asia-only.
Read - i-Bead to launch i-Bead 1000 [DAPreview]

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive? 07/06/2004 08:17 PM
Slashdot Jul 6 2004 11:30PM GMT

Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Disk?

Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Disk? 02/13/2004 11:54 AM
Just how big can you get with Xserve RAID?

Bantam/GPX BA1000 2GB Hard Disk Player
for $100

Bantam/GPX BA1000 2GB Hard Disk Player
for $100 05/25/2004 10:32 AM
The boys over at DAPReview aren't real big fans of it, but if you want to pick up a 2GB hard disk player on the cheap, Outpost.com Bantam/GPX BA1000 audio player on sale for $100. It may not be the...

First Impressions: JVC Everio Hard Disk
Camera

First Impressions: JVC Everio Hard Disk
Camera 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

InfoSync has their first impressions of JVC's 3CCD 4GB hard drive based camcorder from a recent hands-on at CeBIT. The Everio GZ-MC500E allows the user to easily swap out the existing 4GB Microdrive card making future upgrades simple and also offers myriad quality settings to increase recording time from its default 60 minutes (near-DVD-quality) to as many as 5 hours of video. The infoSync piece has more on their personal experience with the $1,800 device, but overall their impressions were that it looks to be quite the camcorder. It also includes a separate SD/MMC card slot and supports PictBridge for direct-to-printer connectivity. JVC says it will launch sometime this month.

Preview: JVC Everio GZ-MC500E [infoSyncWorld]
First seen: JVC Everio GZ-MC500E: 3CCD Hard Disk Camera [Gizmodo]

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive? 07/06/2004 06:50 PM

Hard disk 'speed limit' found

Hard disk 'speed limit' found 04/23/2004 09:22 AM

Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk

Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk 12/15/2003 07:58 PM
onebuttonmouse writes "Toshiba have set a new record for the world's smallest hard disk at a tiny 0.85". Surely this will have some great applications in ...

Hard disk heads can be polished with
green tea

Hard disk heads can be polished with
green tea 04/27/2004 04:11 PM
Green tea is an environmentally sound substitute for diamond polishing compound used in the preparation of super-smooth hard-disk read-write heads.

John Lombardi, at Ventana Research based in Tuscon, Arizona in the US, suspected that green tea might also provide be an effective compound for polishing magnetic read-write heads. This was because tannin, a chemical that gives tea and coffee a bitter taste, binds to certain ceramic and metal materials. It is this quality that causes it to stain teapots and mugs...

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New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player

New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player 07/01/2004 10:07 AM

Maxtor a good hard disk backup

Maxtor a good hard disk backup 06/29/2004 12:37 AM
Washington Times Jun 29 2004 5:03AM GMT

Sony NW-HD1: A New Walkman-Branded Hard
Disk Player?

Sony NW-HD1: A New Walkman-Branded Hard
Disk Player? 06/23/2004 10:52 AM

Item! I have it on good word that Sony is planning on launching another hard drive-based music player, called the Sony NW-HD1. It's all rumor at this point, of course, but according to my source it will be branded under the Walkman name and has "far better styling than the Vaio offer." Sony is apparently shopping it around to various outlets now to see what people think in preparation of an autumn launch. If anyone can grab me a picture of this mythical new unit, I would bake you the most delicious cupcake man has ever baked. Developing!

Related
Sony VAIO Pocket Review, iPod Comparison [Gizmodo]
Sony's HMP-A1 VAIO Video Pocket [Gizmodo]

Hitachi to build hard disk factory in
China

Hitachi to build hard disk factory in
China 06/21/2004 12:12 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 21 2004 3:08PM GMT

Creative's 24 Hour Zen Touch Hard Disk
Player

Creative's 24 Hour Zen Touch Hard Disk
Player 06/07/2004 09:06 AM

Creative's got a new hard disk player coming out called the 'Zen Touch' (apparently dropping the NOMAD branding) that takes them even close to the land of outright iPod clones, with a solid white casing and integrated vertically-oriented touchpad on the front. Stealing is the sincerest form of flattery, I say. Even better, the battery life is amazing -- the claimed 24 hours of the Zen Touch would triple that of the iPod. The 20GB player will be out in the fall and (according to IGN) be available for $330. Size-wise, the Zen Touch is just a tad larger than the iPod, at 4.12 x 2.7 x 0.87 inches.
Read [Creative via EverythingUSB]
Rea d [Gear.IGN]

SATA Hard Disk Controller Recommendation
Needed

SATA Hard Disk Controller Recommendation
Needed 09/21/2004 12:45 AM
I'm in the process of consolidating a lot of computer hardware (selling off another notebook soon) and want to add a lot more disk space to my home "server" so I'll have space to dump all the files. The machine has lots of room in the case, but it's a couple years old so there's no on-board SATA. My plan is to drop in 3 250GB SATA disks and use Linux software RAID-5 to give me close to 500GB of...

CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor
hard-disk

CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor
hard-disk 01/05/2005 01:43 PM
Seagate Technologies LLC will begin offering a Compact Flash (CF) card form-factor hard-disk drive from February this year, the company said at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, on Tuesday.

Hitachi GST plans big hard-disk plant in
China

Hitachi GST plans big hard-disk plant in
China 06/22/2004 07:47 AM
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. is planning to spend up to $500 million to build a hard-disk drive manufacturing center in China, the company said Monday.

Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive

Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive 01/08/2004 07:56 PM
Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a prototype hard-disk drive smaller than any currently on the market.

Seagate Believes In Self, Ups Hard Disk
Warranties to Five Years

Seagate Believes In Self, Ups Hard Disk
Warranties to Five Years 07/27/2004 09:21 AM

Unless you consider hard drives to be disposable (not a bad policy, given current failure rates), you'll probably be interested in hearing that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has upped to warranty period for all of its consumer hard drives to five years. Over the last couple of years, most major hard disk manufacturers had quietly changed their warranty period to one year (most were at a three year warranty before that), in spite of (or because of) an increasingly poor record of drive life-cycles. It has since become almost a joke to presume that any hard drive will last longer than a couple of years without failure; an interesting proposition, considering that the average computer user still keeps all of their data on a single drive.

Of course, just because a drive has a five year warranty doesn't mean the drive will last that long. You should still back up like a good Computer Scout. But in the worst case, at least you'll be able to get a replacement drive while you're tearing up over years of lost pornography.

Read - Seagate Warranties Jump to Five Years [Yahoo]
Read - Seagate Authorized Retailers [Seagate]

Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever

Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever 01/05/2005 06:58 PM
Hitachi Ltd. said yesterday that it is seeking to push the limits of data storage with smaller stamp-size disks for handheld gadgets and vastly higher-capacity drives that can store up to a half-terabyte of data.

Hard disk storage from EMC imitates tape
backup

Hard disk storage from EMC imitates tape
backup 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Tape backup is slow and cumbersome. Hard disks are cheap and fast. EMC makes a "disk library" to masquerade as a tape device.
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