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.
Helium HDD Data Recovery: Interview with Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering at DriveSavers
Since helium hard drives came to the market at the very tail end of 2013, DriveSavers has seen more and more helium-filled hard disk drives coming in each year for data recovery. Director of Engineering Mike Cobb shares his insight into data recovery for these unique devices and why data loss occurrences are happening more frequently. It’s not what you might expect!
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…
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…
Grow Your Business With DriveSavers
Today, we are talking with Weston Moyer, our partner program manager. Weston is going to share some proven best practices our partners use.
Physical and Firmware Damage—a Perfect Data Recovery
Video Transcript Hi. My name is Michael. I live in Los Angeles, California, and I work in advertising. So this is the drive that used to sit in an external hard drive enclosure. It fell off a desk and onto a tile floor. When I tried to boot it up…
Researcher Spills The Tea
Working long hours, at 4 a.m, researcher Dan Cortes M.D., Ph.D. accidentally spilled his tea on his computer containing his research and analysis. Knowing DriveSavers is his lab’s data recovery partner – he knew who to call. Video Transcript Hello. My name is Dan Cortez. I live in Bar Harbor,…