By Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering April is officially Spring Cleaning Month. Take some time to pay a little attention to your servers with some important maintenance. How many of these suggestions do YOU already follow? Is there anything you’ve missed? Back Up (obviously) We always recommend triple redundancy,…
By Rene Novoa, Senior Manager of eDiscovery and Digital Forensics More and more aspects of our daily lives are being monitored, tracked and recorded by electronic devices. Today, computers, smartphones and tablets can be found in almost every home and have already become obvious sources of electronically stored information (ESI)…
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 Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer If the advanced technology in our everyday lives was directed against us, who would win in a battle pitting humanity against smart machines? If you consider the rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), this imagined scene isn’t as farfetched as you…
By Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer We like to keep you informed any time we come across a new scam or hack that may result in data loss or data theft. We’ve recently seen a new type of phishing email that is quickly becoming very common. This spoof email…
By Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer Computer security threats aren’t going away this year. They’re going to get worse. And, they’re likely to create bigger and nastier problems for big and small companies alike as hackers create new pathways into even highly secure environments. Google the term “security…
Image: Flicker By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering To get the best of the past and the future in storage technology, look no further than hybrid and Fusion drives. These are both complex storage solutions that combine two completely different technologies to give customers more speed with larger capacity. Hybrid…
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 As if the ransomware extortionists haven’t done enough damage already, today we are seeing a scheme in which victims are encouraged to infect their friends’ computers instead of paying the ransom. The new ransomware virus, known as Popcorn Time, offers the infected user the…
One of the first iPhone 7 recoveries ever done in the world involved a device sent to DriveSavers after it went overboard on a trip to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The newest iPhone is advertised as water-resistant*, but this one could not survive the November 8, 2016 dunking…
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