Hard Drive Failure Due to Head Crash

December 12th, 2009

shally spears asked:
Hard drive is the basic storage media, which encodes digital data on rapidly moving platters, having magnetic surfaces. Read/write head is the designated component, for each platter surface except for the extreme ones, which accesses data from different parts of the platter. The head reads or writes data by detecting the magnetization [...]

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Jumper Settings When Using a Hard Drive Enclosure

September 11th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
Hard Drive Enclosures are getting increasingly popular, which, given their cost and ease of use is not surprising. Enclosures are a great way to re-use on old or salvaged hard disk drive from a computer and whilst these older hard drives are always as large as the current models (in terms of [...]

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Create your own Data Back Up solution from any spare Hard Disk Drive with a Hard Drive Enclosure

September 5th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
USB Cases, USB Caddy or USB Enclosures – create your own back up solution
Its easy to create your own Data Back Up solution from any old or new Hard Disks Drive
There are lots of reason why you might want to create an external back up solution using a Caddy:
Perhaps you want [...]

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Hard Drive Docking Stations – An Alternative to a Hard Drive Enclosure

August 28th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve got a lot of hard disks drives that you use on a regular basis or perhaps you’re an IT or Support Engineer and your job involves testing hard drives then you might want to consider a Hard Drive Docking station rather than a hard drive enclosure.
Whilst Hard Drive Enclosures are [...]

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Are “One Touch Back Up” Hard Drive Enclosures worth the extra money?

August 26th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
Are “One Touch Back Up” Hard Drive Enclosures worth the extra money? 
There are lots of Hard Drive Enclosures available on the market for 2.5” and 3.5” Hard Drives. Often the distinguishing features between them (apart from the obvious size) are whether they are for IDE or SATA Hard Disk Drives and whether [...]

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RAID Hard Drive Enclosures – When one Hard Drive is not enough

August 12th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
If you’ve got a large amount of data to back up or store then rather than looking at a standard Hard Drive Enclosure into which you install one Hard Drive you could consider a Dual Bay RAID Enclosure. 
DUAL Bay enclosures as the name suggests support two separate Hard Disk Drives, which significantly [...]

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Hard Disk Enclosures – What are they & why would I use one?

August 12th, 2009

Phil Battison asked:
What is a Hard Disk Enclosure and how do I use one?
A hard drive enclosure (sometimes also referred to as a Hard Disk Case or Hard Disk Caddy) is simply an external case that “encloses” a hard disk drive and turns it into an external device that can then be connected to [...]

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Simple Facts About Hard Drive Enclosures

July 24th, 2009

What are hard drive enclosures:
Pretty much every computer has got a hard drive inside it. Think of the hard drive as the place onto which the operating system, programs and files are stored. It’s like one large storage and filing system for your computer with all of the stored data referenced and indexed for [...]

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Learn The Basics of Hard Drive Enclosures

July 24th, 2009

Why you need to learn about enclosures:
Hard Drive Enclosures (also known as Hard Drive Caddy’s) are rigid cases that Hard Disk Drives “sit” inside. They are designed to support standard Hard Disk Drives of all types and sizes and once installed inside the enclosure, the enclosure can be connected to the computer via USB, [...]

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How to Find The Best Portable External Hard Drive

July 24th, 2009

Some good tips to help you find the best external hard drives:
There are new demands that come up daily in the information technology industry. The good thing is that the manufacturers of digital accessories understand this challenge. Due to this, a variety of products have been introduced into the market so as to cater [...]

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