linux // harware storage device

• BleachBit - Bleachbit frees disk space and maintains privacy. It wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, and APT. Excellent multilingual support - available in 30+ languages. Latest release is 0.73, 2010-02-18.
• Clonezilla - An intelligent partition or disk-cloning program that works on any filesystem. Latest stable release is 1.2.6-59, 2011-01-18.
• DiskDrake - A Mandriva graphical utility to simplify hard disk partitioning.
• Exabyte Tape Drive - Integrating into a Linux System - Information for integrating Exabyte MammothTape, 8mm, 4mm, and Travan tape drives into a Linux workstation.
• Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population - An excellent technical paper on the failure pattern of disc drives and the key factors that affect their longevity. In PDF format. (2007)
• GNU parted - A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.
• GParted - A GNOME partition editor which includes a small, fast, Slackware-based live CD that syncs its releases with GParted. Latest release is 0.5.0, 2009-12-02.
• IDE Drives - Gary J. Murakami - Table of current IDE hard drives of capacity greater than 40MB.
• Linux ATA Wiki - This wiki was created to support ATA development and use under Linux. An excellent resource for Linux-compatible SATA and PATA drives. This wiki also includes libata status and resources, as well as ATA resources.
• Linux Raid - A community-managed reference for Linux software raid as implemented in the latest kernel.
• Linux SATA RAID FAQ - This document discusses SATA RAID controllers and how to differentiate true hardware RAID controllers from the software RAID controllers. (2009)
• LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Linux Partitions: A Primer - Hard Drive Basics - Contains basic information on Linux partitions; information is still relevant. (2002)
• Partition Image for Linux - A Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many file formats (including ext2fs/ext3fs, ReiserFS, JFS) to an image file. Also available in French. Latest stable release is 0.6.9, 2010-07-25.
• QtParted - A Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit. Latest stable release is 0.4.5, 2005-08-12. Site also available in French.
• RAID and Data Protection Solutions for Linux - Offers the following information: types of data loss, Linux RAID solutions, related data storage protection technologies, diagnostic and monitoring tools, disc array management software, and hardware RAID controllers; last updated 2003-08.
• SCSI Media Changer and Backup Device Control System - A set of low level driver programs to control features of SCSI backup-related devices such as autoloaders, tape changers, media jukeboxes, and tape drives.
• SCSIAdd - A command line application to add and remove SCSI devices from the Linux SCSI subsystem on the fly. Latest version is 1.96, 2008-01-08.
• The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO - Description of the SCSI subsystem, with an external view of the SCSI subsystem as the main theme; includes material to assist with the administration of the Linux SCSI subsystem. (2004) (There have been no updates since 2004.)

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