One of the most common objections we hear from users reluctant to make the switch to online backup is the wide variety of cheap cloud storage services on the market today. Who needs online backup when you have Dropbox, Google…
Note: Very long post, scroll to whichever headings pique your interest if you don’t want to read the whole thing. Seriously, there’s a lot to cover when writing about a new OS. Last fall, Microsoft announced they would be launching…
Title pun intended. Long ago, Maxtor was a big player in the hard drive market, until they were acquired by Seagate in 2006. In fact, they were the third largest hard drive manufacturer in the world just before the acquisition. While…
The one thing USB flash drive recovery had going for it was easy direct access to the underlying storage medium. Inside the casing of that USB thumb drive or camera card is an industry-standard NAND flash memory chip. Whereas hard disk platters can…
In Gillware’s latest blog series, “Data Recovery 101″, our bloggers take a closer look at each of the different components of a hard drive and explain how they work, how they fail and how we recover the data from each…
Hard drives manufactured in recent years store more data per square inch of platter area than ever before. This increase in data density each device is more complex and sophisticated than their predecessors. To function at these high levels, hard…
