Blog Posts Tagged with "Hard Drives"
Don't Forget About E-Waste During the Holidays
December 28, 2011 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
How much time have you spent deciding what to do with the outdated smartphones, tablets, televisions, and computers? Don’t throw them out with the regular garbage. Instead, consider the environment, but first, take security precautions...
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The State of Solid State
December 22, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Solid state disks are more reliable because SSDs do not contain any moving parts. There are no read heads, actuator arms or spinning platters that can break down in an SSD. SSDs can be moved around freely while in use and have a higher tolerance against shock and vibration than HDDs...
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Multi-Function Printers and Security Beyond Compliance
October 21, 2011 Added by:David Sopata
Compliance in many cases is one of the biggest drivers for security. Compliance may not exactly require you to secure your Multi-Function printers or other devices, but since most organization generally want to do the right thing, it may be required to go beyond compliance...
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Cloud versus Local Storage Security
September 23, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Each storage medium offers its own benefits for different scenarios. It's up to the user to choose the option that best fits. Security is a major difference in these two types of storage. Until cloud storage becomes more secure, many will prefer local storage alternatives...
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Signals of PC Failure and Contingency Plans
September 21, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Has your computer refused to turn on? Or turned on, but only to display a blue screen? The worst is when you’ve been working on a document and your hard drive crashes. If this has yet to happen to you, you’re likely overdue. The following are signs your computer may be close to death...
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RAID and Disk Size - Search for Performance
August 31, 2011 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
Centralizing your storage is always a very good idea - you can manage storage requirements of most servers through a central storage system, without the hassle of juggling local disks within servers. But centralizing a storage opens a whole new world of hassles...
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The Urban Legend of Multipass Hard Disk Overwrite
August 29, 2011 Added by:Brian Smithson
Multipass disk overwrite and the “DoD 5220-22-M standard 3-pass wipe” are, at best, urban legends. At worst, they are a waste of time. A single pass overwrite with any arbitrary value (randomly chosen or not) is sufficient to render the original HDD data effectively irretrievable...
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The Dangers of Second Hand Hard Drives
August 25, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Whether you are planning on selling, recycling or throwing away your old hard drives, you should always consider using one of these solutions: destruction, degaussing, or secure data erasure. Otherwise, there's no telling whose hands you data may end up in...
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