2024-05-02

May 2009

Most Popular Freeware for HDD Diagnostics (MHDD)

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MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, and SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access USB storage; there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI). This software can make precise diagnostic of the mechanical part of a drive, view SMART attributes, and perform Low-level format, bad sector repair, different tests and tens of other functions.…
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Basic Information of Hard Disk Drive (Part I)

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Modern hard disks feature an area that contains information that the CPU on the HDD logic board uses to operate the drive. The area is called the “system area” (“SA”). This area contains for example the drive ‘microcode’ (a.k.a. firmware), HDD Configuration Tables, Defect sector tables, SMART information, Security info (drive passwords etc), Disk ID info and more.…
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New Seagate Replica PC Backup Appliance

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Seagate introduced a new backup appliance that completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process. The new Seagate® Replica™ backup appliance is a complete PC backup system, which automatically and continuously stores up-to-date copies of everything on a PC, including installed applications, operating system, e-mail, pictures, music, movies, Internet bookmarks and settings.…
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