Posts Tagged with 'Hard Disk'

April 21, 2008

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Fujitsu offers hardware based hard disk encryption

Fujitsu has announced the release of their 2.5 inch hard drives that features AES-256 bit encryption using the hardware in the hard disk itself. Since the encryption keys resides in the hardware of the hard disk, the chances of someone breaking into it is highly remote. Hard disk based encryption puts less burden on the system to encrypt and decrypt the data for regular system use. This hard disk also has a feature that can erase the content of the

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics

March 6, 2008

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Review: Full Hard Drive Encryption from AlertBoot

Millions of laptops gets stolen every year and information worth millions of dollars is lost. Many organizations throughout the world keep losing confidential data from their office computers and some of them don’t even know about it. What if your laptop gets stolen – what kind of data resides on your system – what could be the price of the data that you may lose? One of the best solution, to prevent access to important data in an event of

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Posted in: Software/Apps

December 9, 2006

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How To: Backup Windows XP in easy steps

What would you do if your system won’t boot up the next time you start it? What if your hard disk crashes the next instance and goes into a state beyond repair? Did you ever take a backup to recover data from or do you have a backup plan in place? Most of us do not have critical data on our personal systems and hence no need to think about backing up data [really ?]. But many others have important

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Posted in: Tools/Utils | Windows

November 19, 2006

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Hard Disk Drives that Detects a Drop

The technology existed for quite a few years and with more vendors now adapting it, we can expect to see it as a standard offering on all make and models in another an year or two. These hard drives can detect a sudden motion or drop with a built-in sensor. Not only they detect a drop but also park the read-write head of the hard disks in a safe zone to avoid damage due to shock received after the fall.

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics | Technology






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