In a flash…your photos could be lost! New Orleans, LA – (IMAGING USA, Booth #1241 —January 16, 2012) – DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today it has formed a dedicated research and development team to conquer the challenges of solid state drive (SSD) data recovery. DriveSavers began…
DriveSavers has won the 2014 Visionary Company Award at the annual Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas. The Visionary Company Award is given each year to a company that is “advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics and in the media and entertainment industries, and to…
What happens in an Internet minute? A lot! According to a study released by Intel, there’s an astounding amount of online activity happening on a 24/7 basis. Social media usage over the past few years has helped spur greater use of the Internet and accounts for a large part of…
DriveSavers played a key role in helping to bring a murder suspect to justice in a Texas case where forensic evidence proved the killer lured the teen-age victim to her death with false text and social media messages. The death penalty was handed down last month in the jury trial…
Case Snapshot Who: Law enforcement forensic examiners in Carrollton and Dallas, Texas, in cooperation with DriveSavers Digital Forensics Department in Novato, California. What: Use of Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer to prove a murder suspect faked text messages from his victim. Why: Without the evidence from the victim’s badly waterlogged phone,…
Hard drive failure can occur at any time, but when will it happen to you? There are no “right” answers, but a recent study shows there’s a good chance that a large majority of single drives will continue to function normally for two, three and maybe even four years. Data…
Hard drives are not just for computers anymore… but can you build a race car out of them? The answer is “yes” if you ask Rob Ryan, a tech worker at WD (Western Digital) who constructed a model of an F1 racer out of parts from 250 WD hard drives.
Western Digital (WD) has pushed capacity to a record-setting 6TB for a new lineup of hard drives that are filled with helium gas. Hard drive manufacturers had been stalled at the 4TB limit until Western Digital’s HGST unit developed a new approach. The HelioSeal platform uses lighter-than-air helium to reduce…
A group of Pennsylvania technology students has taken Halloween to a new level by creating a computer out of a pumpkin. The challenge for the students, who are from the Clearfield County Career and Technology Center, was to build a functional computer using traditional hardware fitted into a big orange…
Last month was a big month for hackers who hit several big companies whose servers–holding sensitive personal information–were breached. Outsiders hacked data for 2.9 million Adobe customers and stole source code for several different Adobe products, according to a news report. Company officials recently told the website Mashable that the information…
