By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Wine country in California is currently overcome with a series of fifteen wildfires that began late Sunday evening, October 8, and continue to burn across Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties. High winds of fifty miles per hour fed the fires, which grew into a…
Originally aired on 1150 AM KKNW Tech Talk with Craig. Craig Walker, host of Tech Talk with Craig, interviewed a representative from DriveSavers on Saturday September 3rd from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. DriveSavers is a leader in data recovery and recently announced that it will provide free data recovery services to…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering If you are located in the path of Hurricane Harvey, we hope that you, your family and coworkers are safe. With severe flooding in Texas and Louisiana coming on the heels of the severe tropical storm, we’ve prepared some guidance to help protect your…
Leader in data recovery confirms ability to recover macOS High Sierra data NOVATO, Calif.–DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensics, announced today that the company is ready to retrieve data stored on drives formatted with the new Apple File System (APFS), should users lose access to…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Last month, the WannaCry/WannaCrypt ransomware tore through hundreds of thousands of computers overnight in a worldwide onslaught. If you are a victim, there is hope. Through in-depth study of the WannaCry ransomware, Kaspersky Labs has discovered that the code was poorly written and contains…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Odds are, at some point in your life, you will find yourself in the uncomfortable position of suffering a serious and unexpected data loss. A traditional hard drive, which is an electromechanical device, will eventually break down over time all on its own. Before…
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 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…
Originally published by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Legacy systems are a fact of life for many companies, but innovation means integrating new technologies. How do you balance the two? Experts weigh in on how to achieve the right mix for a hybrid IT environment. While many enterprises busy themselves with talk of…
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…
