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Fire-Damaged Devices: Recoverable or Not?

DriveSavers Engineers gained great knowledge after the 2017 Northern California fires, a series of fifteen wildfires that began late Sunday evening, October 8. They burned across Sonoma, Napa, and Lake counties, burning down our homes, and neighborhoods. We know firsthand what type of fire damage we can expect to see…

Best Data Backup Solutions and Practices

If you’re familiar with DriveSavers, you know that we always preach to “back up, back up, back up!” If you’ve ever been a customer of DriveSavers, you know the sinking feeling of knowing you should have been backing up your data. Data loss can occur at any time to any…

Holiday Travel—Time to Back Up and Be Safe

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…

DriveSavers: Raising Data from the Dead—Literally

As Halloween comes around every October, most people think of trick-or-treaters, zombies, and witches. But at DriveSavers Data Recovery, Halloween comes to mind nearly every day. We specialize in “raising data from the dead.” In this case, “the dead” is data from physically damaged or mechanically challenged computer hard drives,…

RAID Glossary

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…

Preparing Your Server for a Planned Holiday Shutdown

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…

Growing Data: DNA Data Storage

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…

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