Many people choose to take the week off for travel between Christmas and New Year’s Day. If you plan to travel for the holidays, then it’s a good idea to protect your data while you’re away from business or home. Here are some tips to keep your irreplaceable data safe…
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 Advancements in data storage technology have not ended with flash. Have you heard of storing data in DNA? Growing Amount of Data As computers, smartphones and tablets become more and more widespread, the amount of data being produced is growing at an exponential and…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Capacity Versus Performance Rapid advances in technology have catapulted the amount of data that can be stored by single devices to higher and higher levels. Hard disk drives (HDDs) lead the game against solid state drives (SSDs) when it comes to storage capacity; however,…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering In a cloud-based data storage business, there is no actual magic cloud. Storage drives are housed in data centers where technicians maintain and protect copies of important customer information for a fee. For the past four years, Backblaze, a U.S.-based cloud data storage company,…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Give it Some Space Filling your drive to capacity will likely cause performance to suffer. Fill to no more than 85% capacity and leave 15–25% empty. At least 15% free space is needed for disk caching and self-maintenance. The computer needs to use disk space…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Do you know how to properly care for your thumb drives, external drives and other devices that may be plugged into your computer? It’s easier than you may realize to lose the data on your portable storage. Should You Leave it Be? Is…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering If you have the misfortune of dealing with a failed data storage device—smartphone, tablet, memory card, hard drive, etc.—what are the most important things you should know before you talk to a data recovery company about the help you need? A fancy website may…
How many people do you know that have dropped their phone in water? Chances are you know at least two or three. If the data on a water-logged phone is backed up, then the data is safe. Just buy another phone, restore data from the backup and the new phone…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Hundreds of broken, damaged and malfunctioning iPhones are sent to DriveSavers every month for data recovery. Despite having the best smartphone success rate in the industry, we aren’t able to recover all of them. Many factors are involved, some of which we’ll go into…
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