When Mark Belhumeur went to bed on Feb. 26, he knew a flood was coming. The rain had been falling for days in Northern California. The ground was saturated, the Russian River was rising and some flooding was imminent. But, Belhumeur didn’t know it would be the worst flood on…
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…
Illustration above by The Project Twins Originally published by Nature International Journal of Science. By Jeffrey M. Perkel Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn’t have to be. Tracy Teal was a graduate student when she executed what should have been a routine command in her Unix terminal: rm −rf…
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 John Ahearne, Forensic Analyst When data is is needed for use as evidence, it is imperative that the only people to work on the device are verified experts in imaging a device for digital forensic purposes—preferably digital forensic experts working for a digital forensic service. Otherwise, the device—or the…
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…
By Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering Updated 12/5/2018 If your company shuts its data storage systems down during the holidays, be careful that it’s not the last shutdown before a data loss. The Problem with Planned Shutdowns Many companies close their doors for an extended time during the Christmas…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering If you’re upping your digital game by replacing a working computer or hard drive with something newer, whether for business or personal purposes, chances are you will be selling, donating or passing down your older computer and it will be used by someone else…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering It’s a sad fact that all hard drives, every make and every model, will fail. And, it’s even more unfortunate that users keep making the same mistakes as they try to perform hard drive data recovery themselves. Here are two of the most damaging…
Updated September 2018 By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering When you need hard drive data recovery, be sure the facility has the proper industry certifications. Otherwise, the data you are missing from your hard disk drive (HDD) may be at a much higher risk of being unrecoverable or even permanently…
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