What does it take to be a reseller for a business-grade backup solution? In most cases, it requires a huge upfront monetary investment and many hours of training. Large backup vendors put these requirements in place as a profit center…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The tech world has been full of surprises this year. Multiple mergers (including Western Digital’s acquisition of SanDisk announced this week), a new memory category announced in July, and now this month’s announcement of a strategic partnership between HP…
Recovery Type: DesktopDrive Capacity: 2TBManufacturer: SeagateModel Name: BarracudaModel Number: ST2000DM001Manufacture Date: 09/2012Main Symptom: Not bootingType of Data: Word/Excel docs, photosData Recovery Grade: 9Binary Read: 51.6% Background: Most people are familiar with the noise a hard drive makes when it’s working. That sort of soft whirring sound that means everything’s working…
Recovery Type: LaptopDrive Capacity: 320GBManufacturer: HitachiModel Number: HTS545032B9SA02Operating System: AppleMain Symptom: Not bootingType of Data: Photos, documents, audio and videoData Recovery Grade: 9Binary Read: 66.6% Background: Most people will agree that going through airport security is one of the more annoying parts about travelling. In this case, the…
Recovery Type: DesktopDrive Capacity: 1TBManufacturer: SeagateModel Name: BarracudaModel Number: ST1000DM003Manufacture Date: 07/2012Main Symptom: Not bootingType of Data: Outlook filesData Recovery Grade: 9Binary Read: 20.7% Background: Oftentimes, we take our computers’ good health for granted. When you press the power button on your machine, you expect it to turn on and…
IT professionals put up with a lot. Whether you’re a system administrator or a managed service provider, end users can sometimes drive you a little crazy. Even though I work in the industry, I’m sure I’m guilty of making our…
Two years ago, Western Digital began shipping their new UltraSlim hard drives, which are roughly half as thick as the standard laptop hard drive — 5mm versus 9.5mm. That put them in competition with solid-state drives to fit into tight spaces, such…
This scenario demonstrates the need for a file-based cloud backup to keep important data safe from data loss threats such as hardware failure, theft, fires, floods or natural disasters such as tornadoes or hurricanes.
Pixar ran into some misfortune that really illustrates the importance of not just a good backup, but a secondary, offsite backup as well.
