Showing posts with label Device. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Device. Show all posts

Friday, August 6, 2010

Multimedia Audio Device Codec Ac97 Soundmax Or Via Driver - Important !

Research. Olin Warner (completed by Herbert Ad...

Your search for help with driver(s) is over; i am about to share with you the quickest and most effective way to locate and get a VIA driver - you'll be glad you stopped by. Like any other windows component, your drivers will periodically need some modernizing - do you make the effort to maintain your drivers in good working order? I'll get you going by sharing a little trick about drivers; you can accomplish this task very easily and eliminate discouragement.

Click here to get a VIA driver now!

It is unfortunately widespread that pc users unintentionally install or already use outdated drivers, which may seem harmless enough, but may actually bring about a variety of computer hassles. In case you quest for a specific driver(s) online, be very careful that you always select the certified and current rendition of the drivers you need. If you're not too familiar with this subject, a driver is simply a program that transmits instructions from windows to an internal or external component - each of such component has a driver uniquely its own. As you can tell, drivers can be a difficult area, but there happens to be a program which first of all examines all your devices and then quickly finds the latest version of the correct driver(s). Eager to put it to the test, i was amazed - it took me about 40 seconds to find the driver that i needed.

Obviously, windows comprises a large number of drivers and as you no doubt understand, maintaining them manually is an unthinkable job for most people. Conveniently, this solution works in parallel with the windows updates feature as it uncovers and provides updates to any drivers that have been installed recently or in the past. In order to optimize your pc's performance and stability, scan your list of drivers and delete any of those which you don't happen to use.

You can probably see now that needing to research, locate and get a VIA driver doesn't have to be a time-wasting and perhaps potentially unsafe job the way it once was. Small tip - if you ever come across any system errors, the best thing to do is replace your drivers - in many situations a bad driver will be responsible for these issues. Think it will successfully track down all the best drivers for you? See for yourself by downloading and installing any of these utilities and let it work; because it was so useful to me, i'm confident you'll also find it helpful. It is my wish (and expectation) that in approaching years the windows program's update capability will provide routine modifications to such crucial files as these. There is a lot more to say about these new solutions, but i think this brief overview has been helpful for you to understand the amazing power of this concept.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

NAS RAID - What Makes Your Network Attached Storage Device Dangerous To Your Data

Network Attached Storage

NAS RAID is an acronym for a Network Attached Storage device that uses Redundant Array of Independent Disks to protect you from losing data when an individual hard drive in that NAS device dies.

Notice I said "when" a hard drive dies instead of "if". Hard drives are like light bulbs, they may last an hour or a million hours. The problem is that you never know when it will fail; but eventually, they all do.

It is common for all of us to try to buy a product that costs the least amount of money. Unfortunately, comparing an inexpensive storage device that does not implement NAS RAID to one that does is like comparing apples to, well, asparagus.

Consolidating your data from multiple computers onto a network attached storage device yields you many benefits, including the ability to more easily backup that data.

But just because it is easier to backup does not mean you will. Yes, a good NAS device will have the ability to automatically backup to an online backup service but that is a topic for another article.

Even if you do have your data backed up, when that single hard drive dies in your storage device two things will happen:

1.) All data added or changed since the last backup is lost.
2.) Your network storage device, and your data stored there, is unavailable until you get that hard drive replaced, your NAS reconfigured and running, and have your data restored. The restore alone could take days depending on where the backup data resides and the quantity of data.

Can you see how buying a storage device without NAS RAID can be dangerous to your data and your ability to access it when you need it?

Even then there are various levels of RAID protection that can be employed on any network storage server. RAID levels 0, 1 and 5 are commonly referred to.

It is CRITICAL to understand that RAID 0 does NOT protect your data. I kind of wish they would not even call it RAID lest people be misled and lose data as a result.

RAID 0 combines multiple disks to form a larger, faster access data volume but it does not have any redundancy about it, hence my preference to not call it RAID. If you lose one drive in a RAID 0 array, you will lose data.

Unfortunately, when you buy a network storage device, the vendor will advertise the "size" of the NAS device based on a RAID 0 configuration, which typically is not even the default configuration.

It is no wonder so many consumers are confused when they power up their new 2 terabyte network attached storage device and see that they have 930 gigabytes of storage available! (This is common with a 2 terabyte unit comprised of two hard disks of one terabyte nominal storage each.)

RAID 1 and RAID 5 do protect your data with redundant hard drives. Often a network storage server will give you multiple options on how to configure the RAID protection if you have more than two hard drives installed.

With just two drives, RAID 1 is your only choice.

Find out how to buy a network storage device that has the capacity you expect it to have and NAS RAID properly configured to protect the data you store on it.

Do not be fooled or disappointed after making a purchase; worse yet grieve over lost data. Get the complete facts at http://NetworkStorageTips.com .