Image: Flicker By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering To get the best of the past and the future in storage technology, look no further than hybrid and Fusion drives. These are both complex storage solutions that combine two completely different technologies to give customers more speed with larger capacity. Hybrid…
Since joining DriveSavers in 2001, Rene has performed data recovery on thousands of storage devices plagued with mechanical failures, physical damage and logical corruption. Over the past 5 years, he has focused his efforts on emerging technology while developing proprietary forensic processes for failed devices. As senior manager of the…
By Bob Mehr, Sr. Legal Services Advisor Looking Back: 2016 A number of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) amendments went into effect in 2015, a couple of which, FRCP Rules 26(b) and 37(e) brought more significant change in the realm of discovery than has been seen in decades. These changes…
San Antonio, TX • January 8–10, 2016 Hosted by Professional Photographers of America (PPA), the Imaging USA conference brings together thousands of professional photographers from around the world for three days of classes, trade show and all-inclusive parties and presentations by some of the biggest names in photography. Stop by booth…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Do you know how to properly care for your thumb drives, external drives and other devices that may be plugged into your computer? It’s easier than you may realize to lose the data on your portable storage. Should You Leave it Be? Is…
Excerpt from article originally published by TCC. 27 mobile enthusiasts and tech bloggers share their predictions for 2017 The wireless world is evolving rapidly, with fancy new smartphones and wearable gadgets emerging all the time. The industry is changing at such rapid pace. It can be difficult to predict the next smartphone…
Original article published by Vice Motherboard. By Joseph Cox This is part of a Motherboard mini-series on the proliferation of phone cracking technology, the people behind it, and who is buying it. When cops have a phone to break into, they just might pull a small, laptop-sized device out of a…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering As if the ransomware extortionists haven’t done enough damage already, today we are seeing a scheme in which victims are encouraged to infect their friends’ computers instead of paying the ransom. The new ransomware virus, known as Popcorn Time, offers the infected user the…
Many people who experience data loss are shocked that something so serious, and potentially damaging, can happen to their equipment without any advance warning. Well, here’s your warning. Something inevitably happens to upset the status quo. One minute things are fine with your computer. Then, they aren’t so fine. Something…
Originally published by Android Police. By David Ruddock One of the most common source of inquiries or complaints we receive from readers is a phenomenon known in the world of smartphones as “boot-looping.” After installing an update or patch to a smartphone, the phone then proceeds to attempt to restart itself…
