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Small transfers (200MB or so) would turn out corrupted and big ones would just fail. HD was making noises too. I thought It was over with the HD (and the damn thing was pretty new) but turned out it...
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You mean the USB-enclosure was broken, or the USB-enclosure broke the harddrive?I connected the disk in a normal PC via IDE and it didn't work there either, so it's not the USB-encolure itself which is...
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dd_rhelp is a wrapper for ddrescue that makes it even better. Especially since you can keep going through power cycles and or cooling cycles. You even get a visual representation of what is being saved.
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View ArticleKeeping frozen drives in plastic.
I think that it is simply to avoid water condensation from the air.
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If the goal is to wipe the data off the hard drive so that it can be sent back, I assume for some kind of financial benefit, then why does the solution have to software? Let's not forget what a hard...
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View ArticleHello! I read this guide to
Hello! I read this guide to online backup and must admit it’s great. Complete, thorough and not too complicated.
View Articlewiping hard drive
Using magnets is not a ideal way to get rid of data. If you intend on selling a second hand drive just be careful. Anything can usually be retrieved with the correct software
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You really need a big ass magnet to do any harm to the data on current hard drives. The data on current hard drives is so dense by now, that it is compleatly enough to overwrite the whole disk with...
View ArticlePartitions on RAID?
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So much technical details and explanation of this thing is almost impossible to find somewhere else. I would like to say that you are really doing a great job, thanks for sharing it with us!
View ArticlePartitions on RAID
Hm, true. I didn't really think much about this. Using the plain /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd should work equally fine, yes.Uwe.
View ArticleHelped me building my own NAS
Very comprehensive page, thanks a lot! I've planned to build my own NAS server with a beagle board (www.beagleboard.org) and I found all required informations here (using a 2.6.35 kernel on debian)....
View Articleauto mount what to change in /etc/fstab and /etc/cryptab file
After reboot my auto-mounting of encrypted does not come up.df -k # df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 151780516 3026000 141044464 3% / none 1016108 664 1015444 1% /dev...
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