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…
Join DriveSavers for a Private Backstage Tour, Lunch by the Lagoon and Speaker Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering When Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM PDT Where DriveSavers, Inc. – In Person Only 400 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. Novato, CA 94928 Directions Contact Cathy Miller, VP…
Professional videographer, Tyson Henderson contacted DriveSavers for data recovery after losing access to once-in-a-lifetime video footage of a surprise wedding proposal. Watch the video to hear about his experience, the custom NAND flash data recovery solution we provided and see the emotional video we recovered. Here’s what Tyson says happened,…
It’s definitely fire season here in California. Once again, we find ourselves overwhelmed with blazes statewide, including the devastating Carr and Mendocino Complex fires that have made the news worldwide. DriveSavers published a handful of articles last fire season that remain relevant today. What to do with your fire-damaged device…
By Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer Effective today, NIST’s Computer Security Division just updated their recommended guidelines by eliminating eleven SP 800 publications. Adding by Subtracting How would eliminating security recommendations be an improvement? These eleven publications all reference technology that is out of date or no longer used,…
Speaker event: Data Needed from Drones? Yes, and the Data is Rich. Recovery of a Drone. Tuesday, August 7 at 9:45 AM – 10:50 AM At Flash Memory Summit Santa Clara Convention Center https://www.facebook.com/events/283337175752968/ Paper Title: Data needed from Drones? Yes, and the data is rich. Recovery of a drone.…
Originally published by TidBits. By Josh Centers Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro laptops have always featured solid-state storage soldered to the logic board, making it impossible to remove for data recovery, as was possible with hard disk drives. For these Macs, Apple enabled last-ditch data recovery through a special port on the…
Originally published by MacRumors. In 2016, when Apple introduced the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models, the repair experts at iFixit discovered the notebooks have non-removable SSDs, soldered to the logic board, prompting concerns that data recovery would not be possible if the logic board failed. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case.…
Originally published by Digital Trends By Chuong Nguyen If you recently purchased one of Apple’s refreshed 2018 MacBook Pro models, you’ll want to maintain backups of your files. Unlike previous models, if the logic board fails on your laptop, there is no way for Apple and its service technicians to access the solid-state drive…
