February, 2009 | DataRecoveryUnion.com

JBOD Just A Bunch of Disks (Drives), a number of disk drives, usually in an enclosure. JBOD implies that the disks do not use RAID technology and function independently. All Mylex RAID controllers support JBOD mode.…

Data Storage

RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter I)

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago01 mins

Immediate RAID Availability See Background Initialization In-Line Terminator A plug attached to the end of a SCSI cable in order to initiate active termination. Used when SCSI devices on the cable do not have built-in termination. See also Active Termination. Interface A hardware or software protocol that manages the exchange of data between the hard disk drive and the computer.…

Hard Disk Repair

Harddisk Diagnostic & Harddrive repair tool: HD Doctor Suite

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago09 mins

1. What is “HD Doctor Suite”? HD Doctor Drive Restoration Suite is an integrated hardware-software combined system that fixes firmware issues for drives of all major manufacturers and popular drive families. 2. Why you need “HD Doctor Suite”? Being a data recovery professional, surely you have such kind of experience: You have to deal with data recovery from a drive with mechanical drive failures.…

Hard Disk Repair

Harddisk Diagnostic & Harddrive repair tool: PC 3000 System

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago2 years ago04 mins

1. What is “PC 3000 System”? PC-3000 Drive Restoration System is a Phase I tool, dealing with drive restoration and its two critical steps: harddisk diagnostic and harddrive repair. 2. Why you need “PC 3000 System”? As a data recovery professional, chances are you have ways to deal with mechanical drive failures.…

Hard Disk Repair

Hard Drive Platter Replacement & Head Exchange Tool: HD HPE PRO

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago3 years ago04 mins

1. What is “HD HPE PRO”? HD HPE PRO is a Hard Drive Platter Replacement and Disk Head Exchange Tool built to handle Head Stack and DSM issues. 2. Why you need “HD HPE PRO”? Besides firmware problem and the well-known file system problem, as a data recovery professional, you must have experiences that drives click and drive spin motor got stuck or burnt.…

Hard Disk Repair

General Knowledge of RAID

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago6 years ago019 mins

1. What is RAID? RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (as opposed to SLED – Single Large Expensive Disk). Today, most drives are relatively inexpensive and the meaning of the ‘i’ is changing into ‘independent’. The purpose of RAID is to use 2 or more drives together in order to obtain increased performance and/or data security.…

Data Recovery

Mac File Recovery

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago15 mins

Mac is a series of personal computer designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple™ which uses its own designed and developed operating system called MAC OS. The original Mac used “Motorola” and “IBM” processors, however recently they have launched their new hardware based on Intel x86 processors.…

Hard Disk Repair

Free Disk Management Programs

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago02 mins

Disktective Freeware disk reporting tool for Windows. It allows you to find out the size, distribution and structure of used disk space.A folder/directory may contain hundreds of subdirectories each containing thousands of files. Select any folder or disk and Disktective will create a report displaying the real sizes of all directories and all containing subdirectories.…

Hard Disk Repair

Free Disk Search Engines

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago01 mins

Hardisk Search & Stats Very powerful freeware text-Search Engine for your harddisk. It enables you to conveniently search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously. Harddisk Search & Stats is ideal for those who are handling text files, such as programmers, web developers, computer professionals, system managers and other demanding users.…

Data Storage

RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter H)

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM15 years ago11 years ago03 mins

Host Any computer system to which disks are attached and accessible for data storage and I/O. Host adapter A bus-based (PCI, EISA, ISA) hardware device, such as an add-in card or ASIC, that converts the timing and protocol of a host’s memory bus and an I/O bus.…

February 2009

RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter J)