Illustration above by The Project Twins Originally published by Nature International Journal of Science. By Jeffrey M. Perkel Hard-drive failures are inevitable, but data loss doesn’t have to be. Tracy Teal was a graduate student when she executed what should have been a routine command in her Unix terminal: rm −rf…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Backing up your hard drive is one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing your teeth and checking the air in your tires, it’s a necessity that can cause great regret if not done regularly. Backing up is the first rule of thumb…
Originally published by Digital Guardian. By Ellen Zhang The life of a CISO is a busy one and it can be easy for priorities to get lost in the shuffle. We’ve polled a group of CISOs and other security professionals to find out what CISOs should be aware of but…
Originally published by Enterprise Storage Forum. By Drew Robb, DriveSavers partners with many drive OEMs on data recovery. It has developed advanced techniques such as chip-off recoveries for flash devices and is skilled at recovering enterprise RAID arrays. Bottom Line: DriveSavers partners with many drive OEMs on data recovery. Making a…
The Chicago Tribune’s local affiliate Naperville Sun wrote a great article about one of our partners, Ubreakifix. Business: Ubreakifix Address: 118 S. Webster St., Naperville Phone/website: 331-472-4292; www.ubreakifix.com Manager: Erik Nigro. Years in business: Eight in Naperville. What does your business do? “We repair pretty much anything with a power button, as the…
Originally published by Tom Merritt of TechRepublic Losing data can be a scary experience. Tom Merritt offers five helpful tips for creating a data recovery plan. Hard drives die—it happens all the time—but what can you do? You can try to recover that data. Or better yet: Plan ahead so you…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Thinking about using RAID configurations in your data storage strategy but not sure what the alphabet soup acronym means, and which type to use? Start here and learn the basic language. RAID defined RAID is shorthand for redundant array of independent disks, and refers…
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, 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 Mike Cobb, Director of Engineer Many businesses and organizations of all sizes rely on redundant arrays of independent disks (RAIDs). These systems distribute data and parity across a set of disks, protecting files held on the array against the failure of any individual disk. Unfortunately, even these redundant systems…
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