by admin | Apr 20, 2011 | Loss
Interesting tool we just came across in the blogs. OSFClone touts itself to be a free drive cloning program (which is what companies that practice “safe hard drive recovery” use), which enables you to “see-all” that is on a drive. Basically, it...
by admin | Apr 15, 2011 | Repair
Well, we suppose it was only a matter of time… Toshiba has just announced the introduction of “self-erasing” hard drives to its product portfolio, a product they’re saying is perfect to “help their customers protect sensitive data from...
by admin | Apr 11, 2011 | Loss
Very interesting article from a storage expert at Information Week, where you might expect him to be talking his own book (or basically, pushing new technologies on companies), but he actually seems to go the opposite way. Read Getting Real About SSD Performance and...
by admin | Mar 10, 2011 | Repair
Recessions bring about these kind of things. The bigger, healthier storage companies end up gobbling up the smaller ones. Such is the case with Western Digital buying Hitachi, and this will continue. As the industry moves to SSD, some of the older platter-based...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | Loss
SSD drives continue to be the “future promise” that the hard drive manufacturers are touting. But the disadvantages are beginning to add up. So says the fine folks at UC San Diego, who tested several drives with the classic drive erasing techniques that...