After a hard drive is recovered by DriveSavers, our standard practice is to return the equipment to the user. We don’t repair the drives so if they are not working when they come to the lab, they leave in the same condition. When a customer doesn’t want their broken equipment…
We spend a lot of time at DriveSavers reminding our customers what they can do to prevent data loss, but today we’re looking at what not to do. Here are the Top 7 “No-Nos “ Don’t turn on any drive that is clicking, whining, grinding, wheezing or making any unusual…
DriveSavers has a very active trade show schedule this year. If you’re interested, here’s the schedule for the next few weeks. Imaging USA – We’ll be attending Imaging USA, one of the biggest photography-centric trade shows in the country. When a pro photographer loses client pictures to a hard drive failure,…
It’s almost mid-January and the New Year’s resolutions you promised yourself are already fading into the background of daily life. But don’t worry, we still have one resolution that’s never too late to accomplish. Backing up your hard drive. Although it’s one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing…
Anyone dealing with solid-state (SSD) drive technology should know a few things about how these unique devices work and what they are supposed to do. An SSD, like the Intel 160GB device shown here, uses flash memory chips to store data. Unlike a traditional electro-mechanical drive, a solid-state drive has no…
With the total number of Smartphones nearing 1 billion worldwide, failures and the potential loss of data are inevitable. Recently, a frantic customer called us from the Midwest to recover data from an iPhone 4s. The phone contained the last videos taken of her mother before she passed away, and…
View Point: Empire College Takes a Journey to DriveSavers On October 10, IT students from Empire College took their annual field trip to DriveSavers to learn first-hand how data is recovered off of hard drives that have failed or have been destroyed. Our students were greeted by DriveSavers staff that checked them…
As the floodwaters from Super Storm Sandy recede, thousands of businesses and individuals are struggling to get back their lifeblood – data! Storm-ravaged computers and other data storage devices exposed to water, mud and physical calamity need to be handled properly or the contents could be lost forever. The process of…
Solid state hard drives are the hottest thing in data storage today. A smaller footprint plus faster response time and lower power consumption are hallmarks of solid state storage that employs cutting-edge Nand flash technology. With an SSD, an array of memory chips work together as a disk drive volume…
Anyone drop a camera in the lagoon? It all began with an email from TechHive writer, Andy Ihanatko. “Hey DriveSavers, are you guys up for a challenge?”, it began. The email went on to explain that Andy had discovered a digital camera embedded in the dried mud of the lagoon…
