If a hurricane hit your business today, would your data survive? Here’s how to protect your data from an impending natural disaster. Keep all electronics out of basements and off the floor in general. Basements are naturally cool places, but are the first to flood. If possible, unplug your hardware-laptops, printers,…
Blackball. Blackhead. Black market. Black death. Blacklist. Blackmail. Blackout. Black screen. Besides the word black, what do all these things have in common? You don’t want a single one of them! So when you look down and realize, “My iPhone screen is black” you may want to panic. Whether your…
DriveSavers published a handful of articles from past fire seasons that remain relevant today. Fire-damaged devices: recoverable or not? The Northern California fires of 2017 taught us some lessons about the different effects that a wildfire has on data storage devices as opposed to the average house fire. Data recovery…
Data storage technology is a rapidly changing space. Several decades ago, most of us were using magnetic tape to store our information and thinking we were living on the cutting edge of technology. We thought nothing could be more efficient or useful. And we were right… back then. But in…
Aug., 27 2020 – Jared Polin of Froknowsphoto knows data loss, and now knows DriveSavers What’s your worst nightmare as a photographer? Mine generally is showing up to a photo shoot, but all I have in my bag is a Pentax. Actually it’s losing all of my photos from a…
“I put all my pictures on this card. I was trying to get my wedding pictures off it and I unplugged it without ejecting it and it just stopped working”
Computers are well-known for their tendency to notify you of cryptic error messages—especially during startup. Windows will occasionally ask you to run in Safe Mode, or your Apple computer may display a Mac file with a question mark on the front. Annoyances like these usually come at the most inconvenient…
Americans take about 20 photos per day, and most of us have more than 600 just saved on our phones, not counting cloud-based storage systems and local hard drives. We like pictures. A lot. So what happens when they’re accidentally deleted? Do you know how to recover deleted photos from…
When you hear the word, “cloud,” what’s the first thing you think of? For most of human history, clouds were fluffy collections of water and air, passing through the sky, giving us a hint to changing weather conditions. But in recent years, the word has taken on a whole new…
The first hard drive was invented by IBM in 1956. Since then, this piece of technology has completely transformed the way we compute, work and live. Hard disk drives have been in a nearly constant state of change for the last seven decades. Manufacturers are on a near constant quest…
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