The woman who keeps 75 hibernating tortoises in her fridges

“You may get your friend to bring his HDD to Challenger PC Clinic and we can do a on the spot check with the tester. If the tester unable to recovered the data, we will courier to Singapore for further checking. For more information, check this out,” said GS, Challenger

“The software called final data, it saved our ass before,” said Kenneth, Yeava Technology

“Trying putting the HD in the freezer for a few hours and then put in back in the machine. Sometimes the hack works :)” said Mustafa

What else?

My first domain is it-lodge.com, registered on 1999. Perhaps, I have also registered websitesolution.com.my and could be even earlier, but it was all done and managed by Asia Pacific Net.

One thing I’m sure – PageRank (PR) has really nothing to do with how long a domain name was registered. The website it-lodge.com has PR1 because it was not updated for long.

The challenge of getting it-lodge.com done, mainly because I was required to setup the website and all its pointing to our own web server. It was a Xitami server installed in a Windows platform, sitting on a HP server.

It was all new to me. I used a Public DNS Service called Granite Canyon (I’m happy that I can remember the name still). There are no nice interface for me to edit the zone file in their DNS server. It was all done manually from setting A to MX records.

Then, comes the Xitami server that never seems to work. I configured it in blind. Lucky, the whole projects was funded under the research projects by my mentor, Dr. Lee Yee Loon. He is the head of research of UTHN. It was how I managed to learn all this, with his support.

The IT-Lodge project meant to be a Research Portal to bridge researchers and industrial people. We don’t have Blog those days. But, Dr. Lee’s ideas of sharing inspiring us until today.

Nowadays, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drive been used through out the world widely and most of the motherboard or mobo is develop with JUST SATA ports instead of IDE ports for our system storage.

Back to the topic, the most common type of SATA which the users used currently would probably be SATA1 or SATA2.

SATA1 : Known as first generation Serial ATA drive which having 1.5Gbit/s, which means the drive having 1500MHz frequency and with the real speed of 150MB/s.

SATA2: Known as second generation Serial ATA drive which having 3.0Gbit/s, which means the drive having 3000MHz frequency and with the real speed of 300MB/s.

We will look into SATA1 by comparing the drive with different brand which is Seagate, Maxtor and Western Digital.

From the table above, I did some comparison for the 3 brands and all of them are very similar. The only real differences between the drive is their storage capacity. This is caused from the platter size of the drive which you can see from the table. The higher the platter size, the higher the inherent transfers speeds should be.

So Maxtor currently is using the highest capacity size compare to the other 2 which giving maxtor having higher performance. Although Seagate having their latest model of hard drive called “Barracuda V”, but they are still using an older 60GB platter. As for Western Digital, although it is still using the oldest platter 40Gb size so overall its performance should be less than the newer drives, but its performance has always been strong.

The biggest thing to note is the warranties. Most manufactures have reduces their warranties to one year to cut costs. But most IDE hard drive probably remain as 3 years warranty compare to Serial ATA.