As computer hardware become cheaper and cheaper, many users begin to use RAID and larger hard disks. To the people who want to use RAID, you’d better make it clear that what RAID is and what the kinds of raid are, … Read More
How to change cluster size without reformatting?
All file systems that Windows XP uses to organize the hard disk are based on cluster (allocation unit) size, which represents the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. The smaller the cluster size, … Read More
What is CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector)?
Many computer users don’t know the hard drive components and how hard drive works. Do you know how files are stored in your hard drive? How Windows know whether the files are? How to read files from and write into … Read More
What is Partition Boot Sector?
Each partition (also sometimes called a “logical DOS volume” in the DOS/Windows world) has its own volume boot sector. This is distinct from the master boot sector (or record) that controls the entire disk, but is similar in concept. It … Read More
Seagate doubles capacity of data center hard drive
Seagate Technology today released its highest capacity, enterprise-class hard disk drive, doubling the previous storage limit if its high-end systems. The Savvio10.4K 2.5-in serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drive, aimed at external storage arrays, also increases meantime before failures (MTBF) by 25% … Read More
Unformat drive with best format recovery software
Did you encounter data losing problem before? For example, when you open a partition, Windows prompt to format the partition before access it. After formatting the partitions, you remember that there are important files. What a heartbreaking experience. After this … Read More