hard disks

Linux Magazine: "Criminals, intruders, and corporate saboteurs leave data behind on the hard disks of any computers they visit.

Many of these computers are Windows systems, but you don’t need Windows to extract valuable forensic information from a Windows hard disk.

In this article, I will describe some simple techniques for getting forensic data from a Windows disk using Linux."

Slashdot-ed ( http://is.gd/5BfK ) launchpad bug #59695 ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 ) "High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime", seems to have generated a lot of fear and confusion in the Linux community.

Canonical & Dell need to issue an official statement to clear the air.

Linux.com: "The essence of the FreeNAS server is to provide storage that is easily accessible from the network. To this end, it is important to understand how FreeNAS handles hard disks and how they can be configured and used to provide the best and most reliable storage for your network."

LinuxPlanet: "Linux, Unix, BSD, and Cywgin-on-Windows users can use the excellent smartmontools package, which includes the smartctl and smartd commands, for monitoring and controlling PATA, SATA, and SCSI hard disks."

ars Technica: "Compulab has announced a desktop computer which weighs less than a pound, yet can run Windows XP and desktop distributions of Linux.

The new PC comes in a number of flavors sporting either 256MB or 512MB of DRAM, Windows or Linux, and options for hard disks and WiFi."

Linux.com: "Things go wrong. Hard disks fail and whole servers crash. Luckily, many Linux-based distributions are available to help systems administrators handle minor catastrophes.

We looked at four of the most portable, all of which fit on a 210MB mini CD -- SliTaz, Parted Magic, GParted, and RIPLinuX."

Things go wrong. Hard disks fail and whole servers crash. Luckily, many Linux-based distributions are available to help systems administrators handle minor catastrophes.

We looked at four of the most portable, all of which fit on a 210MB mini CD -- SliTaz, Parted Magic, GParted, and RIPLinuX.

Linux.com: "I move from computer to computer constantly -- desktops, laptops, testing machines -- and rather than worry about synchronizing the assorted hard disks content, I prefer to keep one central copy of my documents that I can access anywhere.

I do that using wdfs, the WebDAV file system for FUSE."

I move from computer to computer constantly -- desktops, laptops, testing machines -- and rather than worry about synchronizing the assorted hard disks content, I prefer to keep one central copy of my documents that I can access anywhere.

I do that using wdfs, the WebDAV file system for FUSE.

SSD drives may be not easy to get, their prices are starting to be more and more affordable.