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Nature: 11 ways to avert a data-storage disaster

Illustration above by The Project Twins Originally published by Nature International Journal of Science. By Jeffrey M. Perkel Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn’t have to be. Tracy Teal was a graduate student when she executed what should have been a routine command in her Unix terminal: rm −rf…

Bulletproof Your Backups

By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Backing up your hard drive is one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing your teeth and checking the air in your tires, it’s a necessity that can cause great regret if not done regularly. Backing up is the first rule of thumb…

Enterprise Storage Forum: DriveSavers: Product Overview and Insight

Originally published by Enterprise Storage Forum. By Drew Robb, DriveSavers partners with many drive OEMs on data recovery. It has developed advanced techniques such as chip-off recoveries for flash devices and is skilled at recovering enterprise RAID arrays. Bottom Line: DriveSavers partners with many drive OEMs on data recovery. Making a…

Chicago Tribune: Down to Business: If your phone or tablet takes a dive or a swim, these guys might be able to save it

The Chicago Tribune’s local affiliate Naperville Sun wrote a great article about one of our partners, Ubreakifix.  Business: Ubreakifix Address: 118 S. Webster St., Naperville Phone/website: 331-472-4292; www.ubreakifix.com Manager: Erik Nigro. Years in business: Eight in Naperville. What does your business do? “We repair pretty much anything with a power button, as the…

TechRepublic: Top 5 data recovery tips

Originally published by Tom Merritt of TechRepublic Losing data can be a scary experience. Tom Merritt offers five helpful tips for creating a data recovery plan. Hard drives die—it happens all the time—but what can you do? You can try to recover that data. Or better yet: Plan ahead so you…

RAID Glossary

By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Thinking about using RAID configurations in your data storage strategy but not sure what the alphabet soup acronym means, and which type to use? Start here and learn the basic language. RAID DEFINED RAID is shorthand for redundant array of independent disks, and refers…

Preparing Your Server for a Planned Holiday Shutdown

By Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering Updated 12/5/2018 If your company shuts its data storage systems down during the holidays, be careful that it’s not the last shutdown before a data loss. The Problem with Planned Shutdowns Many companies close their doors for an extended time during the Christmas…

RAID Spring Cleaning Tips

By Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering April is officially Spring Cleaning Month. Take some time to pay a little attention to your servers with some important maintenance. How many of these suggestions do YOU already follow? Is there anything you’ve missed? Back Up (obviously) We always recommend triple redundancy,…

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