11 Tips for a Stronger Password
Weak passwords can make it easy for someone to access your personal data. Here are some good tips to follow when creating passwords.
10 Tips for Server Maintenance Over the Holidays
Fewer employees working over the holidays means a lighter load on your server system, making this the perfect time to put your scheduled maintenance plan into action. Some do this yearly, some every six months and some every month. No matter how often you perform server maintenance, always be sure…
Helium Hard Drive 101
Helium hard drives are an excellent option for individuals and companies that need high-density storage and want to reduce their carbon footprint. For example, helium hard drives can hold more data than conventional drives. They’re also much more efficient at heating up and cooling down when working with older data.
DriveSavers: Raising Data from the Dead—Literally
As Halloween comes around every October, most people think of trick-or-treaters, zombies, and witches. But at DriveSavers Data Recovery, Halloween comes to mind nearly every day. We specialize in “raising data from the dead.” In this case, “the dead” is data from physically damaged or mechanically challenged computer hard drives,…
Data Security Compliance: A Cheat Sheet for IT
Whether you work for an organization controlled by compliance standards or you are an independent IT looking to build your enterprise business, industry regulations regarding data security, also known as information security, can sometimes cause a real headache. Keep reading for a single set of guidelines to follow that can…
SSD 101: Guide to Solid-State Drive
A solid-state drive (SSD) is one of the most popular, fastest, and energy-efficient solutions for storing and sharing information. Anyone dealing with SSD technology should know a few things about how these unique devices work. DriveSavers data recovery engineers have prepared the following “cheat sheet” to help you understand the…
DriveSavers 1st to Recover Data from Catastrophically Damaged M1 and T2 Boards
The company may be the first in the world to recover data from Apple M1 and T2 logic boards that have been damaged beyond repair. (Novato, CA, July 2022) – DriveSavers Data Recovery continues to be the global leader in the advancement of data recovery services, including Apple’s most advanced…
SSD Data Recovery Horror: Oven-Fried Drive
You may have seen a “repair technique” floating around on the internet which recommends using an oven to bring a faulty flash memory device, such as a solid-state drive (SSD), back to a working state. This risky technique involves literally baking the circuit board in an attempt to revive the…
Backblaze Hard Disk Drive Stats for Q1 2022 – DriveSavers Confirms: Brand Doesn’t Matter
DriveSavers resellers and customers often ask which brand hard drive is more reliable or least likely to fail. U.S.-based Backblaze, a scalable cloud backup and storage solution, recently released a report that helps shed light on this common question. Backblaze maintains data centers housing hundreds of thousands of HDDs and…
Six Years of Research Almost Lost to Antarctica’s Harsh Tundra
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania seeking answers to some of the most important questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies, and star clusters, set forth with several other institutions on a six-year project called BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope).