Format recovery – recover files from formatted disk partition.
Posted by Andy in Data Recovery on March 11, 2010
Many computer users may encounter this problem, when you access a partition Windows prompts to format this partition. Sometimes, you want to format a partition completely to reorganize, but forget to copy some important files. Format recovery is common requirement for many computer users. We have introduced some format recovery software before. Today, I want [...]
10 Ways to Speed Up Computer
Posted by James in HDD optimise on March 10, 2010
Many computer users have this experience that the computer become slower and slower, especially when starting up. You may also find that the system taking more time to respond to a user’s actions like opening files, folders, surfing the Internet and other tasks. So the first thing you are thinking is how to speed up [...]
HDD format tool, 6 ways to format disk drive.
Many computer users encountered this problem that when you access a disk partition, Windows prompt to format this partition. Sometimes, there are many files in a partition, you want to copy some files and completely format this partition. Some virus stores in the disk partition, but the antivirus software cannot get rid of it, so [...]
What is online backup? Advantage and disadvantages of online backup.
Posted by Jordan in Data Backup on March 8, 2010
What is online backup?
Online backup, also known as remote backup, is a method of offsite data storage in which files, folders, or the entire contents of a hard drive are regularly backed up on a remote server or computer with a network connection. A number of companies provide online backup services for subscribers whose computers [...]
What is incremental backup?
Posted by Jordan in Data Backup on March 6, 2010
Incremental Backup
We have discussed full backup and differential backup before, today I’ll talk about Incremental Backup.
Firstly, open My Computer and a partition, then right-click any folder and choose “Properties”. In “General” tab, click “Advanced”, then below window would pop up.
This archive attribute means that this folder could be backed up or not. After full backup [...]
What is differential backup?
Posted by Jordan in Data Backup on March 5, 2010
Differential Backup
Every backup software provides full backup features, but few backup software provide differential backup. Why some backup software doesn’t provide differential backup? This could be related to two parts, differential backup is more complex to design compared to full backup, so it is too difficult for the small companies. Another reason, due to the [...]
Full backup – completely backup everything on your drive
Posted by James in Data Backup on March 1, 2010
What is Full Backup?
A full backup is a backup of every file on a file system, whether that file has changed or not.
Full backup alternatives
The alternatives to a full backup are incremental backup and differential backup.
When to choose full backup
It would be ideal to make full backups all the time, because they are the most [...]
Is RAID 10 the same as RAID 01?
RAID Levels 0 1 (01) and 1 0 (10)
Common Name(s): RAID 0 1, 01, 0/1, “mirrored stripes”, “mirror of stripes”; RAID 1 0, 10, 1/0, “striped mirrors”, “stripe of mirrors”. Labels are often used incorrectly; verify the details of the implementation if the distinction between 0 1 and 1 0 is important to you.
Technique(s) Used: [...]
What is RAID 5 and its features, advantage and disadvantage?
RAID Level 5: Some commonly used
RAID Level 5 is a cluster-level implementation of data striping with DISTRIBUTED parity for enhanced performance. Clusters can vary in size and are user-definable but they are typically blocks of 64 thousand bytes. The clusters and parity are evenly distributed across multiple hard drives and this provides better performance than [...]
What is RAID 1 and its features, advantage and disadvantage?
RAID Level 1: Commonly called Mirroring
RAID Level 1 is the pure implementation of data mirroring. In a nutshell RAID Level 1 gives you fault tolerance but it cuts your usable capacity in half and it offers excellent throughput and I/O performance. This RAID level is often used in servers for the system partition for enhanced [...]
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