You may have seen a “repair technique” floating around on the internet which recommends using an oven to bring a faulty flash memory device, such as a solid-state drive (SSD), back to a working state. This risky technique involves literally baking the circuit board in an attempt to revive the…
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…
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania seeking answers to some of the most important questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies, and star clusters, set forth with several other institutions on a six-year project called BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope).
Have you ever accidentally deleted an important photo you can’t get back anymore? What if it’s your business or home photos, wedding or childhood memories, or pictures of a loved one? In our experience, users normally face such an accident while cleaning their computer for storage/speed and end up deleting…
You can recover your iMessages only by restoring them from your last backup. If you have not backed up your iPhone – call DriveSavers. One of the biggest downers one can face is accidentally losing their text messages. While most of us never imagine something like this happening, it usually…
Hard drive failure is one of the several leading causes of data loss! Surprisingly, while hard drives are one of the most critical vehicles for data storage, they’re also the least thought about. Think of the last time you gave serious thought to the health of your hard drive? The…
When severe weather threatens your home, school, or business this winter, don’t be caught unprepared. As rain clouds gather, the resulting storms, floods, power outages, and other damaging impacts of bad weather pose a very real threat to any unprotected data storage device. When storms generate massive power outages and…
You wake up, the sun is shining and you decide today will be a good day. You get ready, have your morning coffee, avoid turning on the news or looking at your phone in the event either may dampen your mood, then head to your office to start your day…
What do you do if you need very fast data processing and don’t want to spend a lot of money? Well, RAID 0 may be the perfect solution. RAID stands for Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks and comes in several configurations, each with unique benefits. In this article, we’re going…
Ever spilled water on your laptop? Dropped your phone in the tub? Or even just got caught in a heavy downpour? Water and other liquids are one of the leading causes of device damage because electronics and liquid just don’t mix! No matter how careful you are, accidents that result…
