Greetings! I am working on a whole series of article that deal with data safety. As an employee of a hard drive recovery service I see a lot of data recovery case studies. The fact is everyone faces data loss at one time or another. My post about How … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Recovery: Why Use A Service
February 10, 2007 By
Hard Drive Recovery. Three words that encompass so much. In my post about why hard drives fail I explained how hard disk manufacturers are burdened with the fact they are producing a product destined for failure. We know that inherently a drive will … [Read more...]
RAID: What it is and how it works
February 9, 2007 By
Definition: RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. It involves the configuration (setting up) of two or more hard disk drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives originally were only … [Read more...]
Backup Solution 1: External Hard Drives
February 9, 2007 By
Greetings everyone! Here is the first in my series of backup solutions. As a data recovery company, dtidata.com sees a lot of hard drive failures. As I said in my post: Speed Kills with Hard Drives Its Heat, I went over how heat affects hard disk … [Read more...]
Hard Drives: A Destiny Of Failure!
February 8, 2007 By
Hard disk drives will always and ultimitely FAIL! Even with all the new technologies that arise such as perpendicular recording, the most basic element of hard drives, their ability to store data, is a lost cause. Faced with the daunting task of … [Read more...]
Speed Kills? With Hard Drives It’s Heat!
January 27, 2007 By
A few months ago I bought an internal thermometer for my computer. I was told by Malcolm our hard drive recovery engineer that the most common reason for hard disk failure was heat. I was shocked to find the internal temperature of my machine was 120 … [Read more...]