External hard drives, flash drives and other similar forms of removable storage have made life pretty easy when it comes to moving data around. However, we live in a world where each person is likely to own multiple devices that external storage could (theoretically) be connected to.
Disks are becoming cheaper and so it's becoming common to have on our desk an external (usually USB) hard drive with a size of 1TB or more. Now, once that we bring at home our new gadget the first question for us is: "which Filesystem should i use with this big disk ?" There are a lot of options and the main point is
Mit der Asax Server One 120 und der Corsair Force hatten wir bisher zwei Solid State Drives mit SandForce SF-1200 Controller im Test. Heute widmen wir uns einer weiteren SSD mit dem beliebten Controller.
HDDScan is a free test tool for hard disk drives, USB flash and RAID volumes. The utility can check your disk for bad blocks in various test modes (reading, verification, erasing), predicting disk degradation before you have to call data recovery service. Program can display SMART attributes, monitor disk temperature and change such HDD parameters as AAM, APM, etc. HDDScan can read S.M.A.R.T. from most of USB, FireWire & SCSI HDDs and supports all major USB boxes.