When I first started writing hard drive recovery software, many, many, years ago Microsoft file systems were pretty straight forward. It was a simple FAT, with some file entry tables scattered throughout the drive with a few key system components. In addition, the file system was designed to be fairly virtual. In other words, if […]
Solid State Storage Replacing Magnetic Media? WD Thinks So
We have talked about solid state storage including how it works and the benefits of using it over magnetic media such as hard drives. By researching solid state storage companies and the progress they have made, we always thought that is would be years before major hard drive manufacturers would take the solid state plunge. Looking at […]