A hard drive head can easily be compared to a brain, because it reads and interprets data just like human brains. This part of the hard drive also takes in new data, saving the information for later use. Our brains work in a similar fashion absorbing, interpreting, storing and recalling…
How many times have you been well into, or almost finished with, a project and with one erroneous click of a button, all your work is gone? This is the moment you learn just how important backing up is. (And hopefully, you only have to learn this lesson once!) If…
Ever put an old hard drive into a new computer only to learn your data has been lost? Good news, that information may not be lost at all… just misplaced. Trouble is, you probably don’t have a clue how to find your misplaced data. This can happen when a hard…
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…
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