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Clonezilla - An intelligent partition or disk-cloning program that works on any filesystem.
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; includes a small, fast, Slackware-based live CD that syncs its releases with GParted.
IDE Drives - Gary J. Murakami - Table of current IDE hard drives of capacity greater than 40MB.
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. (2008)
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.
QtParted Homepage - A Partition Magic clone. Site available in English and 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 1.95, 2005.
Serial ATA (SATA) Linux Status Report - An excellent resource for Linux-compatible SATA drives; includes information on hardware and vendor support. For driver status information see http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html.
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.)
The Linux Tape Device Certification Program - This program is designed to test and certify a vendor's tape backup hardware against a known set of parameters to ensure compatibility for use on Linux; the results are posted in the "Drives" section of the site.