It’s almost mid-January and the New Year’s resolutions you promised yourself are already fading into the background of daily life. But don’t worry, we still have one resolution that’s never too late to accomplish. Backing up your hard drive. Although it’s one of those tasks that rates somewhere between flossing…
Anyone dealing with solid-state (SSD) drive technology should know a few things about how these unique devices work and what they are supposed to do. An SSD, like the Intel 160GB device shown here, uses flash memory chips to store data. Unlike a traditional electro-mechanical drive, a solid-state drive has no…
With the total number of Smartphones nearing 1 billion worldwide, failures and the potential loss of data are inevitable. Recently, a frantic customer called us from the Midwest to recover data from an iPhone 4s. The phone contained the last videos taken of her mother before she passed away, and…
View Point: Empire College Takes a Journey to DriveSavers On October 10, IT students from Empire College took their annual field trip to DriveSavers to learn first-hand how data is recovered off of hard drives that have failed or have been destroyed. Our students were greeted by DriveSavers staff that checked them…
As the floodwaters from Super Storm Sandy recede, thousands of businesses and individuals are struggling to get back their lifeblood – data! Storm-ravaged computers and other data storage devices exposed to water, mud and physical calamity need to be handled properly or the contents could be lost forever. The process of…
Solid state hard drives are the hottest thing in data storage today. A smaller footprint plus faster response time and lower power consumption are hallmarks of solid state storage that employs cutting-edge Nand flash technology. With an SSD, an array of memory chips work together as a disk drive volume…
Anyone drop a camera in the lagoon? It all began with an email from TechHive writer, Andy Ihanatko. “Hey DriveSavers, are you guys up for a challenge?”, it began. The email went on to explain that Andy had discovered a digital camera embedded in the dried mud of the lagoon…
Thinner, lighter, faster and recoverable! Everyone is talking about the iPhone 5 and we’re no exception here at DriveSavers. Today we’re announcing data recovery services for the Apple iPhone 5 as well as all other Apple devices using the new iOS6 operating system. As the first company to successfully perform iPhone…
Truth be told, your SSD may not actually be ready to self-destruct…yet. However, one of the key points we revealed in our presentation, “Electronically Stored Information Recoveries from Solid State Drive Technology – New Challenges for e-Discovery”, presented at the Chief Litigation Officers Summit, is that due to the design…
DriveSavers data recovery engineers working in one of its secure clean rooms. PHOTO: MAT HONAN After being hacked: Mat Honan thought he lost his digital life forever, but DriveSavers engineers were able to restore most of it by diving deep into his compromised laptop. This is his story: After getting epicly…
