Almost everybody who has worked with PCs has had occasion to need to do some jockeying of hard drive data. Whether it be recovering data from a drive, doing drive-to-drive data copying, or perhaps wiping a drive clean, such tasks can take up a lot of your time or even cost you a bundle to buy specialized software for it. Many times, people have to make use of a spare PC to perform some data tasks, and not everybody has a pile of computers around. This is where a device like the Disk Jockey comes into play…

From the Diskology website: “Diskology debuts Disk Jockey, the world’s most versatile hard disk diagnostic and copy tool. Disk Jockey can be used with your Windows or Macintosh computer connected via the high-speed Firewire or USB 2.0 ports or it can be used as a stand alone unit. Disk Jockey lets you mount drives to your desktop, mirror (RAID 1) or span hard disk, copy data between hard disks at lightning speeds, verify, test and erase hard disks.”

The Disk Jockey has 8 different modes which are:

1. Drive mounting


2. Mirroring - make on-the-fly duplicate of one drive onto another.


3. Spanning - use two drives as if they are one huge volume.


4. Block-level copying


5. Disk-to-disk Comparison - verify that a copy just made is exactly like the original


6. Read Test


7. Single-Pass Disk Erase


8. Triple-Pass Disk Erase

What’s in the Box?

The Disk Jockey comes in a compact little white box with a lot of data and marketing on the outside. But, open it up and what you have inside is:

1. The Disk Jockey.


2. Power cable and power supply


3. 2 black electrostatic masks to place your drives on when working on them


4. USB cable


5. Firewire cable


6. Manual

The unit also came with an adapter to connect 2.5″ drives to Disk Jockey, but I do not know if this is standard equipment or an add-on accessory. In order to use the Disk Jockey, you will need a Windows or Mac machine with USB or Firewire, and an operating system that supports those devices. You will also need to use UDMA hard drives. SCSI drives and non-UDMA drives will not operate with Disk Jockey.