Computer Storage Solutions

Are there any Network Attached Storage drives that allow you to password protect individual folders?

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:40:59 +0000

I recently purchased an NAS for work so that each individual employee can backup their information. However, since some of this information is restricted to certain employees, I need to be able to password protect each employees individual folder. The NAS I bought does not do this. Any suggestions on one that has this capability?

what protocol are you using?(NFS/CIFS) or some samba ?

why my ps2 slim play blu ray backup with out using duct tape?

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:48:11 +0000

i have burned blu ray disk smackdow vs raw 2009 why it plays the game i heard that ps2 wont play blu ray disk

PS2s don’t have Blu-ray drives, which means they can not read Blu-ray discs.

Duct tape has nothing to do with nothing.

what’s the average lifespan of solid state storage?

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:01:03 +0000

its a lifetime storage.. basically 4x the regular hard drive …. and that lasted on aerage of 5 years …. so yeah ..

RAID or Not RAID for Single SATA HDD ?

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:46:15 +0000

have Asuse A8N-sli motherboard , its suport nForce NVDIA raid also silicon image raid and SATA HDD . also i have a 120gb WD SATA hdd.
do i get beter performance if i use raid or don’t need raid for single HDD .
Thank you for help in advance .

RAID with 1 drive would be pointless.

The whole point of RAID is to gang up multiple drives to act like a single drive, so you get a speed up due to the parallel seek action and also redundant storage if you opt for that.

Is It Possible to Update existing Tapes using Backup Exec?

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:36:23 +0000

Hi Everyone,
I was just wondering if it is possible to update existing backup tapes with the latest information, without needing to run a full backup everytime, using Veritas Backup Exec 9.1.
Eg. I have run a full backup of my music on my computer and was wondering if it possible to just update the tape with any new files that i have added to my computer without erasing everything off the tape and running a full backup.
Any ideas or information will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
DrStee

You can buy a memory stick 4GB, does not cost much and the backup is quick!

Is It Possible to Update existing Tapes using Backup Exec?

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:36:22 +0000

Which type of data storage has the longest life?

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:35:35 +0000

Which type of data storage has the longest life expectancy ?

Is it:
Internal Hard Drive ?
External Hard Drive ?
Solid State Drive ?
Optical Disk (CD, DVD, BD) ?
Other ?

given that all of these mediums are used and handled with extreme precaution and care.

Also try to list the life expectancies of these mediums in descending order… from the longest to the shortest.
Try to answer in more than 3 words unlike the first answerer… thanks in advance

The best data storage you can get right now would be an Solid State Drive because it has no moving parts, it takes less power and it performs much faster then older hard drives. However they are expensive because they are new and the technology has not been perfected to the point of being consumer friendly. You can still buy them but they are going cost more than a normal hard drive.

I would list them in this order: SSD,Inernal/external, and optical.

Generally, the less moving parts the better and the less you move it around the better. Disks can also get scratched or worn which can cause reduced life. Hope this helps!

Advantages and disadvantages of magnetic tape backup?

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:24:22 +0000

A cool thing.

Would this decrease in GB of my hard drive make a difference?

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:06:42 +0000

500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm Hard Drive or a 128GB Solid State Drive

I know that the SSD would be faster but would a typical college student miss out on the huge loss of storage from decreasing from 500GB to just 128?

Thanks!
It’s a laptop for college and I am worried about having space for music and photos and things of the like.

Desktop or laptop?

SSD’s are really nice… If it is a desktop, why not get both, and use one for windows, and the other for storage. If it is a laptop, and you can afford the SSD, you could always do that for speed, and then get a cheap 500gb external for storage.

I need solutions to these flash drive viruses?

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:40:10 +0000

Today, there are so many flash drive viruses, some are a really terror. It makes file transfer from pc-to-pc impossible now due to combination of these viruses. It spreads from office to school to personal computers. But I was just wondering could it be same to external storage devices, or any other device hence they use USB cable to the USB port mostly used by flash drives? Its kinda risky to put all my files in my external storage device, that these viruses could wipe it out.

Here are the most popular flash drive viruses, I don’t know all of its capabilities:

> RECYCLER
>> This virus hides all folders and the first line of sub folders in those folders, yet still accessible.

> Unnamed Virus 1
>> This virus is the most terribly known virus, I hope you understand my explanation. I think it only infects folders. A copied folder from an infected computer to the flash drive is the target of this virus. The copied folder is totally altered, all files and sub folders are changed with unknown names and extensions (special characters and rectangle thingy like ZZZZZZ.ZZZZZZ) with ridiculously large files (up to 4GB, but it doesn’t really matter). The files are no longer usable)

>> Unnamed Virus 2
> Same as above but the altered folders and sub folders still has its original name but files inside it are changed to internet shortcuts and pictures (jpg and gif, it doesn’t have a preview)

>> Unnamed Virus 3
> Every compressed file (zip, rar, etc) are corrupted after you copy them, extracting them will just give you a message that there’s no archive found or its corrupted.

>> Unnamed Virus 4
> All executable files, when you run it, it will run the command prompt, after a few seconds it will close then… nothing.

>> Unnamed Virus 5
> All pictures in the folder and sub folders will no longer have a preview image (there’s no more image even if you open it)

* All Unnamed viruses infects only (as far as I know) copied folders from the infected computer, so when you inject in a different pc, the virus starts to work. Somehow injecting it in the same computer (where you copied them) doesn’t seem to infect the copied folder… I think (and in later days you can inject it to a pc without this unnamed viruses from altering your files)

Can you tell me solutions to clean and vaccinate my computer from this kind of viruses and to make file transfer possible again. Please give me more information about this viruses and how do they work and infect other computers, and do they also do there job in external storage devices or hard drives etc… Thanks for all the help.

These viruses run by using the autorun feature in windows and by autorun.inf files that execute the virus, when you open the usb drive
So for safety, disable autorun on your pc. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
Also use a program like autorun eater, this will detect and remove the autorun.inf file, so when you open an infected drive the malware wont run.
Lastly, only one autorun.inf file is allowed on the root of every drive, so create an empty folder on each drive and name it autorun.inf
http://download.cnet.com/Autorun-Eater/3000-2239_4-10752777.html