is partition alignment just for ssd? if not, is there any advantage for non-ssd? i've heard of the paragon alignment tool..doing it.. though prob not free and don't know if it's good. Only plain old ...

While doing some disk swapping yesterday, I kinda screwed things up. I had used Clonezilla to clone my 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD and that went off without a hitch. Unplugged old system drive and the ...

In my previous post, I wrote about assembling and using the Farnell element 14 Pi-Desktop kit. I limited that post to the basic installation, configuration and use of the Pi-Desktop enclosure itself.

You can simplify various partition tasks, such as rebuilding the MBR, copying a disk, and doing a disk surface test, by relying on a handy third-party app. Most modern operating systems contain ...

So the RevoDrive we'll be testing today is a 120GB version. Here's how that works. OCZ places two NAND flash partitions onto a PCB. Each 64GB partition will get a SandForce 1200 based IC assigned for ...

What’s the most effective way to replace a hard drive without losing data? Undoubtedly through a 1-to-1 copy, and disk cloning software can help do that without any hassle. Whether it’s to clone a ...

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Hey dude, welcome to page two. Here's where we'll look a little deeper inside the actual product. The OCZ IBIS is, as stated, an SSD based on MLC NAND flash memory. It's more advanced then just an SSD ...