By John Ahearne, Forensic Analyst This article is part of a series that delves into each step of the digital forensic process. If you missed one of the previous articles, you can read them at the links below: Digital Forensic Process—Introduction Digital Forensic Process—Identification Handling Digital Evidence Handling of evidence…
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 Will DeLisi, NAND Flash Recovery Specialist What do you get when you combine a solid state drive with a traditional spinning hard drive? It’s a hybrid drive, which may very well be the best of both worlds. Solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs) combine a smaller, faster SSD with a…
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…
There can be a lot more at stake than pictures, music and funny text messages when your smartphone stops working. Sometimes, it’s serious family matters that hang in the balance. Such was the case with Amy, a single mom who sent DriveSavers a severely damaged iPhone that held data to…
Originally published on LinkedIn. By Todd Brous, President at Untwist, Inc. Over the past 10 years, I have observed that many people use Hard Drives for Archiving their data. In general, this is fine as long as one understands the technical limitations and tradeoffs of using hard drives. The big questions…
Originally published by Nature. Getting data off an ancient floppy disk or computer tape isn’t easy, but it can be done with the help of clever software, hardware and data recovery. In 2012, William Parker and his colleagues went hunting for a data set that tracked the growth of more than…
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Drobo, the maker of award-winning storage solutions for businesses, professionals and consumers, and DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, today announced an exclusive agreement that offers new Drobo customers a free DriveSavers Data Recovery Service Plan. Drobo customers that register a new device now have…
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 Thecus. Thecus® Authorizes DriveSavers® to provide Data Recovery services DriveSavers provides worldwide professional data recovery services Thecus Technology Corp has authorized DriveSavers to offer professional data recovery services to Thecus users worldwide. By owning and operating a NAS, you are ensuring that your vital information is secure. Unfortunately…
