Free Hard Drive Erasing Tools

If you need to remove sensitive data totally from your harddisk, simply deleting these files is not enough! Using advanced methods, it is even possible to recover data that’s been overwritten, unless it has been overwritten using carefully selected platterns! Operating systems usually do not totally delete the file, but just mark the file as being ‘deleted’ so it can not be accessed when you view the contents of a directory.…
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Seagate Harddrives (History,Series,Models)

Seagate is the world’s largest manufacturer of hard drives and storage solutions. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Scotts Valley, California. Seagate’s hard drives are used in a variety of computers, from servers, desktops, and laptops, to other consumer devices, such as digital video recorders, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles, and in portable media players and automotive navigation systems.…
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RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter S)

SCSI Small computer system interface (pronounced scuzzy). The fast, intelligent input/output parallel bus used by high-performance peripherals. Software-based array An array in which all management functions including parity calculation (XOR) are performed by the host server CPU. These products are low priced but have high CPU utilization and limited fault-tolerant features.…
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