Squidoo Monsters Lens Directory

These are the best computer monitors for photography. So if you are editing photos or want to see graphics at their best a regular PC monitor often won't be enough. [Read More]

Recent survey made by Osirium company showed, that British organizations are not sure that all data and settings are deleted from the device before disposion. Corporate devices store different kinds of secret data and account access data, all of which can be recovered . Hackers can not only get access to the network with the help of acquired administrator's rights, but also put data at risk, which eventually can lead to a serious data leakage. [Read More]

A study held by scientists has demonstrated a very important security results for all banks, companies and enterprises. The study shows that sometimes it is impossible to delete files stored on a solid-state drive using traditional ways of data deletion. [Read More]

Modern HDD have a tendency to decreasing of cost of storing an item of information. For example, the first HDD for personal computers had capacity of 10 Mb (it's not a misprint) and cost 5000 (five thousands) of evergreen presidents. Nowadays you are able to buy a storage device of 2 Tb for the same 150 presidents. [Read More]

This year's IT developments pinpoint the explosion regarding mobile comuting. Supplements and all effect units will certainly master the actual scene even as find brand-new methods for computer systems being an extension box from the human encounter. [Read More]

Practically every day we get letters with awful stories about failures of hard drives. Not only the described situations are absurd, but also the ways with the help of which some users attempt to save their long-suffering data media. Let us consider one of the widespread myths concerning data recovery - the "Freeze It" myth. [Read More]

Many people believe that hard drives are now outliving their usefulness and the future belongs to solid state drives. Many users say that they have finally given up on the reliability of hard drives and are now switching over to solid state drives instead. Will HDDs soon become needless? [Read More]

More often we have to face with a problem that users complain about low quality of modern hard disks. A lot of people say that these problems occur because the disks from sinking supply of Taiwan of the previous year are sold, but in practice customers, who buy new disks of the current year, don't complain less. Could hard disks become less qualitative? [Read More]

Most notebooks are equipped with one HDD - it's happened so historically (because it's mobile). Nowadays they are not worse by settings then desktops and represent the only working surface, so one hard drive may be not enough, because users have to save there not only most important things. [Read More]

The patient was 3,5" HDD Western Digital SATA (if I remember the model right...) The declared malfunction: it does not function, and the power is on nothing happens. If we look closer this patient has a long crack that looks like a torn scar in the electronic board. The damage is quite serious - we can see shorn elements of the surface mounting, and it is very likely that there are multiple ruptures in the interlayer. Naturally, the hard drive does not make any attempts to bootstrap SHD, and t... [Read More]

Memory cards are usually used in modern photo equipment to store the captured images. Basically, SD cards are used for most camera models. CompactFlash is often used in professional class digital cameras. Such memory cards as xD cards (Olympus and Fujifilm) are used less often. [Read More]

In the process of data recovery and maintenance of hard drives many cases are as equal as twins - the only difference is in order number and HDD types. I decided to describe typical data loss cases and considering their repetition, it would be useful for many users to learn about it. [Read More]

People often don't even think whether their files, which are stored on their flash drives, are safe or not . But sometimes such situations happen: all data, which is stored at these tiny carriers, become unavailable. It'll be pitifully to loose not only entertainment files, such as pictures, photos, videos, but also important data, such as passwords for different sites, emails or electronic cash-boxes, some important programs, clients database, etc. Sometimes it's even impossible to collect all ... [Read More]

Regardless of your HDD brand data loss is just a matter of time. No matter what causes the loss - whether mechanical damage or anything else - data recovery from hard disc drives of notebook computers, single servers or RAID servers will always be in great demand. In general, data is lost for the different reasons. [Read More]

Basically, this specific malfunction can somehow be connected with the hardware of our computer, that is, with malfunctions and errors of the OS or with the wrong BIOS configuration. Thus, our computer has successfully turned on, passed the necessary procedure but on the screen instead of a greeting appears an inscription "Non-System disk" or "Operating system not found." This inscription says that the OS cannot locate the system files necessary to actually boot. Let's consider all the possib... [Read More]