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Internet Minutes Add Up Quickly

What happens in an Internet minute? A lot! According to a study released by Intel, there’s an astounding amount of online activity happening on a 24/7 basis. Social media usage over the past few years has helped spur greater use of the Internet and accounts for a large part of…

Case Study: With UFED Physical Analyzer, Investigative Team Helps Prove a Case for Capital Murder

Case Snapshot Who: Law enforcement forensic examiners in Carrollton and Dallas, Texas, in cooperation with DriveSavers Digital Forensics Department in Novato, California. What: Use of Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer to prove a murder suspect faked text messages from his victim. Why: Without the evidence from the victim’s badly waterlogged phone,…

How Long Before My Hard Drive Fails?

Hard drive failure can occur at any time, but when will it happen to you? There are no “right” answers, but a recent study shows there’s a good chance that a large majority of single drives will continue to function normally for two, three and maybe even four years. Data…

Noble Gas Boosts Hard Drive Capacity to 6TB

Western Digital (WD) has pushed capacity to a record-setting 6TB for a new lineup of hard drives that are filled with helium gas. Hard drive manufacturers had been stalled at the 4TB limit until Western Digital’s HGST unit developed a new approach. The HelioSeal platform uses lighter-than-air helium to reduce…

Hack Attacks Yield Big Data

  Last month was a big month for hackers who hit several big companies whose servers–holding sensitive personal information–were breached. Outsiders hacked data for 2.9 million Adobe customers and stole source code for several different Adobe products, according to a news report. Company officials recently told the website Mashable that the information…

Government Discounts for Forensics and eDiscovery

DriveSavers offers special government pricing for computer Forensics and eDiscovery services. Under the DriveSavers GSA schedule, government agencies can purchase specialized legal services, litigation support and electronic discovery for a reduced rate. In addition to these services, DriveSavers also offers GSA-level pricing on more traditional data recovery service. Similar discounted rates are…

SPA Makes Hard Drive Push

You’ve got a friend in the data storage business. That’s the word from a new trade group formed to spread the word about conventional hard disk drive storage and newer devices employing solid state storage technology. The Storage Products Association (SPA), a non-profit trade group consisting of Hitachi GST, Seagate, Toshiba and Western…

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