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Thursday, July 5, 2007

It's HAMR Time!

Dutch scientists at Radboud University Nijmegen have used a laser flash 40 billionths of a millionth of a second (40 femtoseconds)on a heated disk surface to change the magnetic field direction on a hard drive disk 100 times faster than current write speeds. This technology is called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). This surely is a step in a right direction. However, these tests do not boost reading speed from a drive, only the speed to which the driven is written. At least faster write speeds will be able to keep up with the ever increasing data network speeds.

Labels: hardware, technology

Written by: Mike"

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

IDrive-E Backs You Up

Being one who works in IT, I understand the importance of keeping regular backups of your data. Now, in a corporate environment this is easy. We have dedicated backup servers that run scheduled jobs every day. But what about the home user, or small business user? Enter IDrive-E.

Free automated backups without any catch! You don't always have the time or resources to be backing up your precious pictures, music, or documents. It's easy to take for granted the stability of todays hardware, but your hard drive or Windows install may go bad at the most inconvenient time.

IDrive-E is one of the most user-intuitive backup applications and all you have to do is to download and install it on your computer and simply start using it to schedule files and folders to secure your backups. IDrive-E makes backing up your data simple by setting and forgetting. The program is similar to the native Microsoft Windows explorer which makes it easy to select files and folders for remote backup and restore related activities.

And here comes my true nerd talk...
Enhanced security with 128-bit SSL encryption on transfers, 256-bit AES encryption on storage with a user defined key, so your data is secure from those snooping about. 2 Gigabytes of storage is what you get with the free version. That's quite generous for free data storage. $4.95 a month gets you unlimited storage space. Sounds good to me!

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