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The Camera From the Bottom of the Lagoon

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…

Your Solid-State Drive is about to Self-Destruct

Truth be told, your SSD may not actually be ready to self-destruct…yet. However, one of the key points we revealed in our presentation, “Electronically Stored Information Recoveries from Solid State Drive Technology – New Challenges for e-Discovery”, presented at the Chief Litigation Officers Summit, is that due to the design…

WIRED Post: How DriveSavers Got My Data Back

DriveSavers data recovery engineers working in one of its secure clean rooms. PHOTO: MAT HONAN After being hacked: Mat Honan thought he lost his digital life forever, but DriveSavers engineers were able to restore most of it by diving deep into his compromised laptop. This is his story: After getting epicly…

Severe Media Damage: Give Crashed Hard Drives a Break

Over the last few months, DriveSavers engineers have a noticed a steady increase in the number of hard drives received at our facility that have severe media damage, making them unrecoverable. While it is difficult to pinpoint the cause of media damage, experience tells us recovery attempts on these drives…

The State of Solid State Devices & SSD Recovery

As solid-state drives (SSDs) continue to grow in popularity, everyone seems curious about their speed, reliability and whether or not they’ll ever permanently replace hard drives that rely on spinning platters to store data. DriveSavers’ experience with solid-state storage technology began around 1995 starting with SmartMedia cards, which were used…

DriveSavers Rescues Man on the Moon!

Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin knows computers. A mechanical engineer and fighter pilot before becoming an astronaut, Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the moon, following mission commander Neil Armstrong. Even with years of experience with computers on earth and in space, nothing could prepare him for…

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