RAID 5 – Is Your Data Safe?
Many different technologies have been created to help reduce the chances of data loss. It has been openly accepted that there is no perfect storage medium; yet, many technicians will use RAID 5 and swear by it. The idea of having two points of failure seems like a...
How to Disable Safe Sleep in MacOS 10
Apple's 'Safe Sleep' is a major factor for iBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro hard drive crashes. When the user closes the lid with the system still on, they are expecting that the system is entering a sleep mode by powering down the hard drive and just uses enough power...
Hard Drive Imaging Product Review: DeepSpar, Atola and ddrescue
DeepSpar Challenges: - none that I know of, at the moment Atola Challenges: - not very flexible for playing with the configurations - when updating the firmware, requires the user to be able to push a button on the unit and start the process at the...