23rd September 2009
Hard drive is a non-removable primary storage device of a computer that stores and retains all the information and data. At times, you may observe corruption in the hard disk which occurs due to numerous reasons such as exposure to heat, water, file syste...
22nd September 2009
Hard drive is a mechanical device that stores the most important data of a computer including system files. Hard drives offers reliable data storage methods and provides easy and quick access to the data. Although, a hard drive is a reliable storage medi...
17th September 2009
Hard disk damage is an unexpected mishappening. As a computer owner, the biggest threat to your data stored in your system is hard drive damage. A hard disk failure occurs when a hard drive malfunctions due to both logical and physical failures. It may h...
16th September 2009
Using SAN (Storage Area Network) for storing Exchange Server database provides high performance, scalability and fault tolerance. In addition, SAN meets the local drive requirement and high data throughput requirements for an Exchange Server. But as fault...
11th September 2009
Windows Home Server or WHS provides Shared Folders functionality. You can access shared folders thus created on your LAN from the desktop shortcut 'Shared Folder'. The other type of storage that WHS supports is disk storage. Shared folders storage is iden...
10th September 2009
RAID 30 or RAID 3+0 implements parity and block striping and byte striping. Also termed as striping of dedicated parity arrays, it is formed by striping the data across several RAID 3 sub-arrays i.e. it is a unique combination of RAID 3 and RAID 0. The da...
07th September 2009
Western Digital Hard Disks are available for different desktops and portable devices. These hard disks come ship with SATA, SCSI and IDE interfaces. Different hard drive families are MOMMOTH, SABRE, HAWK, SCORPIO and BUCCANEER. At times, you observe th...
21st August 2009
Exchange Server is largely used as a messaging and collaborative software solution by different enterprises that use infrastructure tools provided by Microsoft. But the instances like hard drive failure can introduce faults in message flow system in an Ex...
19th August 2009
Laptops are immensely being used by individuals and different companies to store critical data. Similar to desktop, a laptop also has internal hard drive that stores information like operating system, programs, execution files and data files. But when com...
18th August 2009
As you turn on the system, computer BIOS performs a POST (Power-On Self Test) to check the consistency of all the connected hardware including hard drive. If the hard drive is failed, BIOS will fail to detect it. In cases, when the BIOS can boot the syste...
16th August 2009
RAID 0+1 and RAID 1+0 are two different nested forms of RAID levels and hence should not be confused with each other. When it comes to performance and reliability RAID 1+0 proves better than RAID 0+1. Observations reveal that while disk failure, RAID 1+0 ...
11th August 2009
In computing, Click Of Death or COD is the condition when you start receiving unusual clicking sounds from storage media like hard disk drive. If you observe COD with a hard disk, it primarily indicates read/write head failure. Since read/write heads flo...
08th August 2009
Toshiba Laptop hard disk drives are considered for smaller form factor, high performance and various reliability characteristics. The popular 2.5” Toshiba hard disk drives come available with 9.5 mm height and most often with a blue circuit board. With ...
08th August 2009
When you start a computer system, the system BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) seeks for the boot sector to boot from. It performs this task by searching the drives in the order that has been specified in CMOS setup. Your system might become unbootable if ...
04th August 2009
RAID Controller is the hardware component that manages all the physical devices and is responsible for presenting them as logical units to the system. Also termed as disk array controller, it provides front-end and back-end interfaces. While front-end int...
