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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…

Seeking an East Coast Regional Sales Director (Washington, DC or NYC)

DriveSavers Data Recovery, Inc. is the worldwide leader in certified secure data recovery services offering data recovery and data risk management solutions to financial, government and healthcare industries. Established in 1985, DriveSavers is a privately held company that employs over 80 professionals and supports over 9,000 business partners worldwide. Most…

Riddle Me This: No Joking Matter

  The Penguin, The Riddler, and The Joker. Q: What is something that everyone should know but never tell anyone else? A: Your password. Passwords should be an important part of your digital experience. With password protection comes security and the peace of mind that our private stuff stays private. We…

The Challenge of Mobile Device Data Recovery

What would you do if you lost all of your data today? Or, if you were suddenly unable to access files on your computer, smartphone or tablet due to a failure of the device? Do you have a backup plan? Have you recently synchronized your mobile devices to your computer?…

Recycle or Re-use?

After a hard drive is recovered by DriveSavers, our standard practice is to return the equipment to the user. We don’t repair the drives so if they are not working when they come to the lab, they leave in the same condition. When a customer doesn’t want their broken equipment…

What Not to Do When Your Drive Fails

We spend a lot of time at DriveSavers reminding our customers what they can do to prevent data loss, but today we’re looking at what not to do. Here are the Top 7 “No-Nos “ Don’t turn on any drive that is clicking, whining, grinding, wheezing or making any unusual…

New Terms, New Technology

Anyone dealing with solid-state (SSD) drive technology should know a few things about how these unique devices work and what they are supposed to do. An SSD, like the Intel 160GB device shown here, uses flash memory chips to store data. Unlike a traditional electro-mechanical drive, a solid-state drive has no…

An iPhone "Kernel Panic" Creates a Panic

With the total number of Smartphones nearing 1 billion worldwide, failures and the potential loss of data are inevitable. Recently, a frantic customer called us from the Midwest to recover data from an iPhone 4s. The phone contained the last videos taken of her mother before she passed away, and…

Recovering from Hurricane Sandy

As the floodwaters from Super Storm Sandy recede, thousands of businesses and individuals are struggling to get back their lifeblood – data! Storm-ravaged computers and other data storage devices exposed to water, mud and physical calamity need to be handled properly or the contents could be lost forever. The process of…

SSDs Come of Age

Solid state hard drives are the hottest thing in data storage today. A smaller footprint plus faster response time and lower power consumption are hallmarks of solid state storage that employs cutting-edge Nand flash technology. With an SSD, an array of memory chips work together as a disk drive volume…

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