Author Anthony T. Hincks once said, “Make sure that you always have the right tools for the job. It’s no use trying to eat a steak with a teaspoon and a straw.” Have truer words ever been spoken? Imagine setting out to eat a steak with a teaspoon and a…
For decades, PC users’ computing efforts have been hindered by subpar hard drive configurations. In most cases, hard drives installed in a standard PC cause bottlenecking. And that results in a lot of lag and user frustration. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) hard drives have the power (literally!) to…
Hard drives are where we keep some of life’s most important data. You probably store everything from your wedding photos and favorite songs in high school to your résumé and tax records on your hard drive. So the last thing you want to imagine is losing your precious data to…
Freezers. Apparently, some folks think they’re not just for ice cream and Bagel Bites. In fact, freezing your hard drive to recover data was once considered best practice. That’s right, all you had to do was put the drive in a waterproof plastic bag, move the Eggos out of the…
A Compact Flash Card (CFC) is a compact flash digital memory card, with capacities from 128 MB to 256 GB (in a few cases 512 GB). CF cards are a popular memory card format developed by SanDisk in 1994 that uses the technology of flash memory for storing data on…
What is an SSD? A Solid-State Drive (SSD) is one of the most popular, fast and energy efficient solutions for storing and sharing information. Flash controller and NAND flash memory are two things that make up an SSD. The primary goal of SSD is to provide high performance of reading…
Data loss is a severe problem for a business of any size, as losing files means losing money and time to recover valuable information that is crucial for your business. Preventing data loss is necessary to know for every business. Data loss can occur when it is accidentally deleted or…
Nearly a quarter of the smartphones we receive at DriveSavers for Android and iPhone data recovery have been opened before they were sent to us. And this number is growing. Why is this a big deal? A minor repair like a screen or battery replacement is unlikely to impact our…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Backing up your hard drive is one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing your teeth and checking the air in your tires, it’s a necessity that can cause great regret if not done regularly. Backing up is the first rule of thumb…
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…
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