Tag: hard drive

07 May 2008

Hard Drive Recovery 101

I get asked to do a occasional data recovery. I was going to make a user-friendly post, but that was taking too much effort. Consider these notes for myself that I want to be able to access easily. Thus, the beginning will be much more verbose and user-friendly, then it will get terse and RTFM. [...]

28 Feb 2008

Hard Drive Choices

I get asked the “which hard drive” question a lot, for whatever reason (and no, this is not in response to my own recent drive failure, but the same question asked of me by several people recently). Let me begin by saying that I am no expert on hard drives. They are extremely complicated, sensitive [...]