Hard Drives No more: Google’s Gdrive To Takes fore - A Discussion

June 30th, 2009 A recent study from Google exposes that 8% of computer hard drives are most likely to fail within two years of operation. Well, that implies every twelve computer hard drive would crash within first 24 months of operation.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

February 17th, 2006 Google's services today encompass almost every aspect of average users internet experience. They have also ventured in providing the data pipe.

October 5th, 2008 The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail.

January 6th, 2009 After the much-hyped Fedora 10, its time for Fedora 11 to take the stage. For the developers gung ho over the best title for their new release, contributions from all in Fedora community is awaited.

January 29th, 2007 NDS, the company behind DirecTV PVR, came up with two very innovative products. The Distributed DVR from NDS allows users to use hard drives from anywhere on a home network instead of being restricted to a hard drive on a single PVR.

January 8th, 2009 Gasping for free space with your 2GB Gmail account? Mozilla Firefox has come up with an apocalypse to take you by surprise. Currently the most popular browser, Mozilla now poffers a new add-on Gspace.

January 15th, 2007 Most modern hard disks have S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) technology built in which, if enabled, allows you to query the hard drive about it's health and performance.

October 1st, 2009 Google refines search results to counter MicrosoftMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc.

August 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened? A hard reboot rectified the error for now.

July 11th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - It's the ultimate showdown in the technology world, the clash of giants that has been eagerly awaited for years. Web giant Google is taking its clearest aim yet at Microsoft with its plan to produce its own operating system that would optimise the way computers work on the Internet.

January 20th, 2008 Last Sunday I went to IIT Alumni picnic in Ibiza resort in Kolkata. Check the slideshow (thanks to Siddharth Roy Chowdhury @ SAIL).

September 7th, 2005 I was reading about Data Mining from Sys-Con. Suddenly out of nowhere I was part of a strange discussion.

April 6th, 2008 How to overwrite your hard disk with random characters dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda How to overwrite your hard disk with zero characters dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda Replace sda / hda with your hard disk identifier. Either of the procedure requires the system has Linux installed or accessible from Linux operating system.

September 13th, 2005 Google has put up an interesting audio-visual presentation (read Flash) explaining how to use and troubleshoot AdSense in your webpages. After completing the demo you should be able to: Locate the ad code in your account Copy and paste your ad code Determine where to paste the ad code Implement the ad code using two different types of WYSIWYG software Editors using a code view feature Editors using a HTML insert function Troubleshoot additional problems Find answers to frequently asked questions Experience it here.