RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter G)
Global Spare
An extra, physical disk drive placed in an array and used as a Hot Spare. A global spare automatically takes the place of a failed drive. See also Auto Swap.…
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HDD Repair Tools: PC 3000 VS HD Doctor Suite
1. HD Doctor Suite (SalvationDATA Technology, LLC. China)
SalvationDATA 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.
By using HD Doctors and our software suite, you can have 50 percent more capability in data recovery, thus have 50 percent more business, which makes you “a professional”.…
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Freebyte Backup
Freebyte Backup is a very effective freeware backup program for Windows. It enables you to easily backup files from any amount of directories and sub-directories.
Freebyte Backup can backup all files, or a selection of files: you can filter according to file-date, file-type and even perform an incremental backup.…
Read More Disk Imaging: Image by selective head(s)
Drives presented for recovery sometimes have some heads or surfaces damaged (physical damage). The problem is severe enough for the drive to stop working in its native system. However, with the latest upgraded Data Compass DCEXP utility, it is possible now (before installation of MHA replacement) to create a copy of data using the remaining good surfaces or drive heads; small files can even be recovered directly.…
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Omniformat
Free document conversion utility for Windows, which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.
exe-eBook Creator
exe-eBook creator is a freeware ebook compiler for TreePad files.…
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Allway Sync
Free file and folder synchronization program for Windows. Synchronizes your data between desktop PCs, laptops, USB drives and more.…
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MPress
Freeware executable packer for PE32 (= Windows), PE32+ and .Net executable formats!
UPX
Free program which can compress Windows and Linux executables to 40% of their original size. Very fast and efficient program.…
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HJ-Split (Freeware file splitter for a variety of platforms)
Why split files? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy?…
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Catfish
Small, free and automatic disk inventory program for Windows. For people who can’t remember what they put on their ZIP disks, floppies or CD-roms! We use it at Freebyte.
Cathy
A similar program (not only in name) to Catfish. Has searching capabilities based on file name, date and size.…
Read More RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter F)
Failback
Restoring a failed system component’s share of a load to a replacement component.
Failover
A mode of operation for failure tolerant systems in which a component has failed and a redundant component has assumed its functions.
Failover Port
A fibre channel port capable of assuming I/O requests for another, failed port on the loop.…
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