An external hard drive that can fit your pocket.

For all the Mac users (and also those who use PC), good news! Western Digital has indeed resurfaced again with their new product: the Western Digital My Passport Studio. It is an external hard drive and has the capacity of 320 GB. Those who are in the media business, this gadget’s for you. It is bus powered, Mac OSX ready, and is quiet during operation. Unlike the more common external hard drives that click or whine during operation, you can be assured that the Western Digital My Passport Studio isn’t one of them. It’s lightweight and measures only up to 2.5 inches, is can surely fit in your pocket as you travel on the road.

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Deviating from the traditional act.

Have you ever downloaded movies off the internet? Or perhaps buy DVDs so that you can keep copies of the movies that made you laugh? Well, from now on, according to PortoMedia, a local media company from Ireland, you won’t be buying CDs with bulky cases or download a 600 – 700 MB movie, so that you can watch that hilarious movie again and again. PortoMedia made a stall or kiosk that can hold up to 5,000 movies in it. All you have to do is to insert your flash drive into the machine, enter the password you have acquired from the kiosk owner and voila! You can now download the video you’ve always wanted.

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Formatting Hard Drive Myths part 5

It is true that formatting will eliminate the bad sectors and will be replace with good sector on the spare section that part of every hard disk. But the performance will suffer because the heads will seek on the spare section in replacements of bad sectors. Bad sectors are signs of bad hard disk. Basically, it means that there something wrong with the hard disk. Bad sectors create debris on the platter and can cause to damage the hard drive.

Additionally, spare sectors are limited on any hard drive. Then once the hard disk runs out of spare sectors, formatting can not replace those bad sectors.

Formatting Hard Drive Myths part 4

There is a myth that bad sectors can be repaired once it was reformatted. A bad sector is an area where the hard disk cannot be written nor read properly. It may due to program-related problems that result in a logical bad sector. Bad sectors that are software related can be restores by formatting using any logical repair utility.

But in case the problem is due to eroded media or the hardware is directly damaged. Such physical bad sectors can no longer be repaired using any logical repair utility and formatting it will not restore them. Formatting them, however, can replace those bad sectors with spare sectors.

Formatting Hard Drive Myths part 3

Anytime bad sectors of the hard drive will suddenly appear whether you just plain using the hard drive or formatting it. The number of bad sectors is definitely will increase as the time goes by.

This myth has some truth in it though. After formatting bad sectors are probably noticeable. This happen because in formatting in formatting the hard drive utility looks for the “new”You will probably notice more bad sectors after formatting. Consequently bad sectors are already there and what happen was revealing them.

So, in a failing hard disk the number of the bad sectors will not increase when you format it. Bad sectors are being revealed in doing so.

Deframenting Hard Drive Myths part 1

Stressing the needle because of defragmenting has some truth in it, though gone astray. Defragmenting the hard disk might require a lot of searching and looking as the hard drive reorganizes its data in a contiguous style. Defragmenting lets the read-and-write heads to scan huge amounts of data without searching over the platters.

On the other hand, right after defragmentation, the hard disk is no longer required to search for all the platters for your data. In this way it lowers the amount of head actuator actions as well as intensely increases the performance of the hard drive. For that reason and technically, defragmenting the hard drive will reduce the workload of the head actuator.

Formtting Hard Drive Myths part 2

Formatting the hard drive will not deposit any layer of “any material” on the platter. The heads of the hard disk do not touch the platter so it is impossible for them leave anything on the surface of the platter.

Additionally, the hard disk is constructed in a sealed environment inside a clean room conditions. There is very a tiny little amount of dust inside the hard disk. Since there is dust formatting doesn’t really put anything on the platter. Platters are continuously spinning, done in a serial order, anything would not be able to itself on the platter to create bad sector.

Formatting Hard Drive Myths part 1

Formatting the hard drive of the PC will not diminish its lifespan. It was said that formatting is the most commonly myth to reduce the hard disk’s lifespan.
Formatting is not a hectic job for your hard disks because the read and write heads of the hard disk do not make contact to the platter surface. Platter may only be damaged once there it as strike during the operation.

In contrast, it is allowed to format the hard drive approximately twenty times a day the whole year and it will not likely to fail compare to a hard drive that hasn’t formatted at all.

Deleting in Hard Disk

By now you might know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. However deleting a file on the disk drive disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data?
A directory in the hard disk is programmed in the system where the file data can be found. The delete process, all it does is to erase the file’s reference information. The operating system can not find it, but the data is still present at the hard drive.

The File recovery function is up to this task. This program looks for the data in the block directory. If the PC is keeping confidential data on business, medial, and other personal financial information a simple deleting command is not enough when disposing the equipment.

SyQuest Technology, Inc.

SyQuest Technology, Inc. abbreviated as SYQT Inc was known in making removable hard disk for personal computers. Syed Iftikar started the company back in 1982. It was name in some extent to him, short for Sy’s Quest. SYQT first product were 3.9” detachable hard disk. SyQuest products aim to give personal computer users non-stop storage for data-driven applications like desktop publishing, Internet information management, multimedia, audio, video, digital photography, fast backup, data exchange, and archiving. Nonetheless, they can not capture their target market

Between 1995 and 1997 their sales have been dropping down. It was for the reason that their products have quality issue. Later in 1998 the company filed for bankruptcy.