If you’re looking for something expensive, maybe for a company or something, I’ve something up my tiny little sleve. I bring forth the ImageMASSter 4008i Drive Duplicator Hard Drive Duplicator and Eraser. I’ve yet to wonder why I would want to buy this overly expensive device just to erase hard drives, but hey, its there for you. This machine, however, is a beasty when it comes to duplicating systems.

Somethings I should I highlight:

Data transfer rate exceeds 2GB/min.

Copy Multiple Hard Drives Simultaneously Yes, this is where the Duplicator will copy up to 8 hard drives, to whatever purpose to that avails.

To buy your 5000 equipment, here you go.

Why hadn’t they thought of this idea sooner? I mean, come on, internet service on the airplane. Everytime I decide to go half way around the world, why shouldn’t I be accompanied with nearly more than 16 hours of plane ride with internet. I can check my email, update my resume, seek through endless youtube videos, or even read through engadget for a quick trick to slip.

News to you, American Airlines plans on taking that step foward by providing this service. Airtell will undoubteld charge you $12.95 for this service, what great gifts? So, whats the take on this?

I say no to you Airtell. Do you know why? Well, here is my 2 cents: In about a year from now, I can imagine that all airlines will have this WIFI service, and yet they will all charge us this $12.95, some less, and some substantially more. But all in all, we can definitely afford to wait another few years, and then viola: all of my work, or lack of work is done. WIFI is free on the planes, just like it is in nearby coffee shops, and many libraries around you. What else? Well, American Airlines has taken this step, we wait for you Northwest, United, etc.

Eh, Active@FileRecovery looks like your ordinary program, well, when it comes to data recovery anyways. So, you’ve been troubled with trying to find a file that you’ve deleted on accident. Ya know, you could’ve just left it in the trash, withouth permanently deleting it, and you wouldn’t have this problem.

But, now that you do, I offer you the following solution: Active@FileRecovery.

You can use it to recover SATA & IDE hard drives, from any type of system, FAT, FAT32, or even NTFS. Use it on your hard drive, usb drive, sony memory sticks, USB external hard drive.

Use it to even recover files that have been infected and corrupted by viruses on your computer. The solution is in your hands.

You can always use warez to download the file for free, however, but if you want to pay, ya know, that is always your choice. Here is the candy.

Partitions seem to get lost, corrupt, or be missed due to some common reasons like power failure, hardware corruption, unformidible system shutdowns, and viruses. I can imagine the amount of data lost due to such a common cause. The best way to prevent this worry is to back up.

Now, I do not have a Mac-user solution to a problem like this, but for those of you using Vista & XP, the solution is simple, under some circumstances.

In light of this, I assume some of you will want some dedicated software to fix all the problems. As all dedicated software companies do, this one also asks for a fee. But, what is this fee for? Well, if it is for you satisfaction, then go ahead and pay it, but don’t coming running to me when someone else with the same problem as you fixes his or her system by using a software/program that is open source (FREE).

You can download a demo of the Windows Partition Recovery Tool here, or you can buy it here.

For those of you who are complete n00bs to the computer world. Let me explain to you what and how a parition works. First of all, a partition is like breaking your hard drive into 2 seperate pieces and using the like such.

It is primarily a division of the computer’s processors, memroy, and storage into multiple sets so that each set of resources can be used independently with its own instances of operating systems and applications.

The way I use partitions seem the most reliable. Basically, before installing your OS onto the hard drive, partition the hard drive 60-40. The 40% should be for the Operating system, while the other 60 should be for anything else (documents, movies, music, etc..)

This allows you to recover any files even if you operating system crashes. Although it does not prevent hard drive failure, it does make it so that the computer processor keeps things organized between the parition. No data will travel to different partitions unless you demand them yourself.

Also, it allows for efficient disk defragmentation, which in turn keeps your system running efficiently and preventing hard drive damage/corruption.

Don’t take my word for it, trying it out yourself will be for your satisfaction, and then when you’re done, you’ll thank yourself.

I can imagine many of you who still have your 1st Generation iPods. I can also imagine many of you who still have it laying around becuase you have bought yourself the lastest generation iPod, and don’t need the 1st gen. any more. Well, you should know that, like any mp3 player, the iPod is basically a storage device.

I’m sure you have the cable that still connects it to your computer, and this is all you need to use the device as storage or data recovery drive. Simply, plug it into your computer, go to my computer and clear all of the devices content. Then, re-format it so that the drive is given a completely new slate.

Now that you have done this, all is well. Now you just need to go to your data recovery program and set the location of your recovery to your iPod. (It will now be a local drive such as drive I: or something to this accord)

The best part about this kind of data recovery is that the iPods are decently reliable. I’ve had my iPod for about 3 years now, and not once have I had a reading failure.

So there it is, I’ll put this up on the table and walk away. The rest is up to you: take it or leave it.

I don’ know how many times we are going to see onboard flash memory being created, but all this tells us that we are one step closer to increasing the memory parameters, which, in turn, allows for data recovery efficiently.

The storage devices are intended for cellphones, PMP, video cameras, and other large amount storage media devices. This Japan-Based company will start offering samples of this flash memory in September only to bulk produce sometime during the fall.

Until then, we wait for SSD to decrease in price.

Well, its not here just yet but we can verify that the future is coming closer. With the Micron SSD’s coming in 128GB and 250GB versions, we can’t necessarily hope for a reliable data recovery disc, but hey, you probably won’t be needing to use data recovery software if the hard drive never fails.

Well, if SSDs are as respectable as they seem to be, then hard drive failure wont be the problem that we think it is. SSDs have a mean time between failure of 2 Million hours, compared to the 300-500 thousand of a normal hard drive.

This doesn’t necessarily ensure the safety of all the data, but hey, a start is a start.

Toshiba never got to make the steps that Blu-ray disc did. After Sony productions bought out Paramount Productions to make all of its movies onto Blu-Ray discs, Pioneer has been up to more than just creating 30/50GB discs.

After extensive layers of burning, it has mounted up to 25 layers to make this 500GB disc work. Maybe if they make these discs consumer friendly products (cough* like the HD-DVD cough*), it might emanate to more than just a product that no one ever buys.

Imagine this for data-recovery: it will be able to extensively back up the hard drive that you currently run from. Most people don’t have more than 120GB hard drives, but for those who do, maybe the disc will be profitable for both. Take all of your movies, games, music, computer software, and shove it all into ONE disc.

Can’t stress that part enough, one disc compared to the 10s of discs that you have to store movies on now.

Uh-Oh, I just hope that when I put it on the counter, it doesn’t scratch out anything. I would hate losing all the data, and unrecoverable data too. Its not worth it if I have to take more care of this disc than just keeping my Hard drive clean and working.

Oh… did I mention watching movies in 2160-Progressive (MORE HD anyone) ?

Looking in your computer case to verify the hard drive is atleast 2.5 inches won’t be too hard. The only thing stopping you is your will. What is not stopped, however, is time and as it goes we will come to find flash cards & SSD emanating into the economy. With the volatitly and reliability, the best option (not right now, but for the future) is the flash card or the Solid State Disk. The various companies, (Scandisk, Canon, etc) have no problems producing these disks as they are the smallest in size and fastest in speed.

At the moment, it doesnt seem that Solid State Disks, and (some) flash card are worth it; lets just say that some of them could cost you the same amount as getting 2 Veliciraptors. But, come the future, and we will see flash cards and solid state disks being the primary memory chips. You see these chips mostly in the mobile industry, but as a revolutionists, (not me, but…) someone is going to make an entire 300GB hard drive based on a flash card.

Its only a matter of time, but hey, what are you waiting for?

“The Cost of recovering a hard drive is almost $7500.” Take a deep breath if your taking a look at the website. A little more comforting, than losing the 7.5k, is that only 1 in every 10 computers’ hard drive fail every year. Well, just to make sure that this person is not you, its safe to back up your hard drive. However, Mozy offers 2GB of free online data back up.

This is not necessarily the best step to have a backup. If anything at all, consider the 2GB of data as a 2nd back up. The first back up should always be somewhere you can access on a local hard drive. Take a look at take what you like.

[Thanks, Oshion]