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One of the benefits to a RAID server with a RAID controller is greater fault tolerance than stand-alone hard drives or servers. When a RAID controller detects failure of one of its RAID drives, as long as all the drives on that controller are redundant and a spare drive is available, the controller will automatically rebuild the array with a functional drive. You may detect a slight delay in performance during the rebuild operation, but you will not face lost data on your RAID array.  To ensure that your RAID controller will rebuild your array, always include a spare SCSI drive for each controller in your RAID array (sometimes called a Hot Spare). The system will not rebuild the RAID…

At the recent CeBIT Show, held this March 1 – 5 at the Hannover Exhibition Center in Germany, Samsung unveiled a 4TB hard drive with 1TB platters. of the SpinPoint EcoGreen F6 line of HDDs, the drive operates at 5200 RPM and uses an ATA-600 interface. It has 32 MB of cache. This is the industry’s largest hard disk drive. Consumers hope the advent of 4TB storage technology with 1TB platters will drive down the price of smaller drives in the 1 – 2.5 TB range. Other consumers voice skepticism about the practicality of the technology in today’s operating systems. About GTP Partitioning in Windows Users of Windows XP, Vista or Win7 will need to format any hard drive over 2…

Green, or energy efficient, hard drives have been a trend in the industry for the past several years. Models from manufacturers including Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi, Maxtor and more boast cooler operating temperatures and quiet operation. For the environmentally-conscious, however, the key selling point to green hard drives should be that they are more energy efficient, which would lead to cost savings on your electric bills and a reduction in your overall carbon footprint. But are green hard drives really a benefit to the environment — or to your wallet? The people at the tech blog “Tested” http://www.tested.com/news/how-much-money-do-green-hard-drives-really-sa… say no, reiterating the findings of a study by Ars Technica.  Here are the facts by the numbers:  – If your…

Tax Day (April 17, this year) approaches, the idea of transforming your business into a “paperless office” may seem especially tempting. There are several advantages to scanning all your important documents, including receipts, bills invoices, business paperwork, human resource documents, etc., and storing it all on your computer server. Moving forward, once all your paperwork is scanned, you can maintain a paperless office by simply generating most of the “paperwork” you need to run your business electronically.  A paperless office is: Back Up Your Data Considering the benefits, it makes sense to switch to a paperless office today. But first, ask yourself this important question: What would happen if, tomorrow, you lost all the paperwork related to your business?  Having…

Here at 24 Hour Data, we were struck by the honesty and humor of this blog post about data back up for business owners, http://blogs.forbes.com/quickerbettertech/2011/01/25/the-guy-from-dell-t… at the Forbes Magazine website. To summarize, a business owner named Gene Marks sat down on a Sunday afternoon to launch his company’s accounting application… to discover his Dell server had failed. He had daily back-ups available but, with only one server in the small business, he had no place to restore the files. He states succinctly: “Having a backup is fine. But not having a backup environment is a problem.” Long story short, four business days (remember, this was a Sunday night) and $500 later, he was able to get his server repaired and…

ever thought your television set would have a hard drive in it? Many of today’s HDTVs, as well as other consumer electronics appliances like digital video recorders, IPTV set-top boxes, and more, now contain hard drives to store audio and video content. Hitachi Consumer Hard Drives Some popular examples already on the market include the Seagate Barracuda LP and the Western Digital WD RE4-GP hard drives. Now Hitachi http://ces.cnet.com/8301-32254_1-20026068-283.html Hitachei’s new CES Hard Drives (CE optimized) joins the market with the introduction of the 3.5-inch CinemaStar 5K2000 family, available in 2TB and 1.5TB capacities, and the 2.5-inch CinemaStar C5K750 line for laptop computers. The C5K750 line is available in the following capacities: – 750GB – 640Gb – 500GB Hitachi C5K750…

Hard drives fail. That’s simply a fact of technology. But you can prolong the life of your hard drive and keep your computer running optimally, by performing some simple maintenance tasks. If your company has an IT staff, you should make sure they are performing this routine maintenance on all the computers in your building regularly. For home PC and Mac users, it’s a good idea to mark your calendar to perform regular maintenance. These processes don’t take a lot of time, but they can save you a lot of time by speeding up your system and also helping to prevent hard disk drive failure and the loss of your important data — which could require professional hard disk drive…

Seagate, manufacturers of hard drives and other storage solutions, http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=go-flex-home-deb… continues to remain on the cutting edge of data storage technology with the GoFlex Home network storage system. This centralized storage solution connects to a wireless router and lets the entire household store, access, and back-up files from Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The system is compatible with Apple Time Machine and also has its own backup application. The Seagate storage system also lets users stream photos, movies and music to an HD media player, a game console and most network-connected DLNA devices over the wireless network. The GoFlex Home storage system comes in storage capacities of 1  TB or 2 TB, with additional storage capabilities available simply…

If you listen carefully, you’ll hear that hard drives do make a lot of sounds. Some are completely normal. But you never want to hear your hard drive making grinding noises. Grinding sounds occur when damaged drive heads have rubbed against the hard drive disk platters too long. The platters have already become damaged and you are facing the loss of your important data. Your hard drive has failed!  Don’t panic. While grinding sounds from a hard drive mean the drive has failed, a professional data recovery service can help. It’s likely that your hard drive will require both a logical and physical data recovery. About Physical Hard Drive Recovery During the physical hard drive recovery, 24 Hour Data technicians…

Today’s technology brings us hard drives with near-silent operation, but most hard drives still make some noise. Most of the time, we don’t pay attention to the sounds, so if we’re tuned into them for some reason, they may cause us some concern.  What hard drive sounds are normal — and which ones indicate a failed hard drive and a need for emergency hard drive data recovery service? Normal hard drive sounds include: Hard Drive Sounds that Need Data Recovery Fast Some hard drive sounds, on the other hand, indicate a problem with your hard drive. Maybe it is old and on the verge of failure, or maybe you dropped your drive and caused damage. The following sounds indicate impending…