Data Recovery News

Portable hard drives from Apricorn, Logitech, and Microsoft use both fingerprint recognition and data encryption technologies.

Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Friday, 22 June 2007

Fingerprint readers have been offered as PC peripherals since the late 1980s, but have never caught on, says Jim Wayman, a biometrics expert. That didn’t sway Apricorn Inc. from releasing Aegis Bio, a new portable biometric hard drive that accesses encrypted data after validating a fingerprint.

Find out about this at Keeping Data Secure with Biometrics

 By Farihan Bahrin (8/7/2004 )

Storage products are built for the purpose of safekeeping data: Media forms like CD recordables and hard disks are robust and durable to ensure that information stored on them remains readable, and that data integrity is preserved. But considering that no storage media is indestructible, how long will information stored remain safe before it finally succumbs to the inevitable effects of time?

Read more at Media Life Expectancy

By Diana Huggins, 9 Feb 2007, lockergnome.com Users often think that the best and easiest way to get rid of start up problems is to simply reinstall the operating system. However, this is time consuming especially when you have to restore data and reinstall your favorite applications. This is where Windows Vista’s Startup Repair Tool can help.

Read more at Vista’s Startup Repair Tool 

Kevin Spiess - Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | 12:49PM (PST)
The gigabyte… Rest In Peace.

Don’t get too used to using GB’s to describe hard drive sizes — the end is in sight for desktop hard drives offering less than 1 terabyte of space.

Find out more at Seagate and Samsung start shipping 1TB hard disks

Comment: Brief, concise, sweet. The reasons in point form.

The reasons, at Why partition a disc drive

Comment: This article is a little old, but useful for those who really know next to nothing about drive partitions. It’s a good basic article to read.

Partitioning your hard drive can make it more efficient, and it can also enable you to install more than one operating system on your computer. But partitioning can also be an arcane task. This article offers some advice on partitioning.

Read this article at Partitioning your hard drive

Good info for mac users =)

Following my inability to get a straight answer on the question “Do I need to defrag my Mac?” I decided to find out for myself. I did a bit of research and there was certainly two sides to the argument.

Read the good stuff at Need to defrag a Mac?

Edited by Narasu Rebbapragada  External hard drives aren’t as fast as internal models, but they are great for backups and are easy to install.

Check out the comparisons at Top 5 External Hard Drives

Read more about NAS

The simplest and most reliable method to protect data on a hard drive is to monitor its health. Even within a standard operating system, you will be able to protect your notebook hard drive if you add the HDDlife drive health monitor to standard utilities. It constantly monitors the drive state and shows you the health percentage. HDDlife gives recommendations and takes measures to ensure the health of your drive.

Download at http://shareme.com/details/hddlife-for-notebooks.html

May be worth considering.