Tag: hard disk

A Podcast for IT – Talking about storage

At the gates of summer, what better than to have a relaxed chat with my colleague Federico Cinalli, This time it's time to talk about storage in general, We will take a look at the solutions we have today from the retro era. We will talk of course about disks and software, of its evolution and the options that we can find; all aimed at any market, From small environments to critical environments, where in addition to good performance high availability is necessary.

Encrypting our hard drive with TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a great utility that will allow us to encrypt our hard drives, are local, Remote, USB, pen drive, Sd… Thanks to this utility we will avoid any loss of information through theft or loss of our laptop or external media, The decryption form being transparent and fast for our users. Uses different encryption algorithms (AES, Serpent and Twofish or a combination of them). We could even create a hidden partition with a hidden operating system in case we were forced to hand over our password, to give them false information! Can be used on Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Linux… Of course it is free! (but not GNU). How to decrypt a password or a file can be used (Keyfile) whatever each one prefers, being able to decrypt the system disk when starting the computer or if we take the disk out and connect it to another computer, if you have TrueCrypt installed it would also be enough. The […]