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…
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…
By John Ahearne, Forensic Analyst When data is is needed for use as evidence, it is imperative that the only people to work on the device are verified experts in imaging a device for digital forensic purposes—preferably digital forensic experts working for a digital forensic service. Otherwise, the device—or the…
Las Vegas • February 25–March 1, 2019 Hosted by Wedding and Portrait Photography International (WPPI), this conference specializes in the creative and business aspects of wedding and portrait photography and filmmaking. Stop by booth #873 and enter for a chance to win a 4TB backup drive! Click here for more information or…
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…
2018 was a busy year for DriveSavers data recovery company! DriveSavers was the first data recovery company to ever win an award at the prestigious Flash Memory Summit A couple of popular YouTube personalities visited the DriveSavers lab in California Our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) published a new white…
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…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering If you’re upping your digital game by replacing a working computer or hard drive with something newer, whether for business or personal purposes, chances are you will be selling, donating or passing down your older computer and it will be used by someone else…
At DriveSavers, we’re experts on cybersecurity. We have to be, considering the petabytes of confidential customer data that flows in and out of our data recovery lab. We frequently share our knowledge of data security and cybersecurity with you through blog articles and white papers. Here are a few of…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering It’s a sad fact that all hard drives, every make and every model, will fail. And, it’s even more unfortunate that users keep making the same mistakes as they try to perform hard drive data recovery themselves. Here are two of the most damaging…
