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The typical problem of Maxtor

1. Firmware problem
Maxtor hard drives are well-known for their firmware problems. If one of the modules becomes corrupted the whole hard drive micro-operating system can’t boot up, the drive can’t initialize correctly and stops working. If this situation occurs the drive becomes identified with its factory alias (N40P, CALYPSO, SABRE, GRIZZLY etc) quote often with 0 [...]

Useful data recovery tools

It is so quite annoying when one day you went up and was shocked to see that your hard disk had been crashed and all important data had vanished. while, usually we can use many free resources like data recovery software on line , sometimes, these free data recovery  tools won’t help .we may hand over [...]

Data Recovery from UT165-MT29F32G08QAA- 2- 4 Thumb Drive

Basic information of the damaged USB Thumb Drive

Controller: UT165

Flash Chip Model: MT29F32G08QAA

Chip Count: 2

Channel Count: 4

This article will introduce how to recover the data from this damaged thumb drive using SD Flash Doctor. We have introduced how to unsolder the flash chip from the PCB and the correct way of placing the flash chip on to [...]

Manchester switch vendor gets $16m funding

Virtensys, the maker of I/O virtualising PCIe switches, has landed $16m (£9.7m)of C-round funding.VirtenSys was founded in December 2005, as a fabless semi-conductorcompany, with many people in its team of developers coming fromXyratex’s Integrated System Division. It is based in Manchester, UK,and has offices in Beaverton, Oregon.
It received $12m of A-round funding in October 2006, and [...]

Kingston specs up SSD series

Kingston has rolled out its latest ‘value’ SSDs, in the process upping its SSD Now series to V+.

The memory specialist is offering a 64GB drive now, but expects to have 128GB and 256GB models out in September.

Kingston’s SSD Now V+: fast reading, relatively slow writing

All of them are laptop-friendly 2.5in units with a 3Gb/s Sata interface. [...]