Toshiba Announces 28TB Hard Drive as Roadmap Targets 55TB by 2030

Toshiba has officially released its Mx11 family of helium-sealed enterprise drives, headlined by a new 28TB model that pushes storage density to new extremes.  According to reporting from Yahoo Tech, the series includes the MG11, offering up to 24TB...
December 17, 2025

Android DroidLock Ransomware: Threat Assessment and Tips

DroidLock is a newly discovered Android malware variant that hijacks your device’s screen and threatens to wipe your personal data unless a ransom is paid. The most effective way to avoid infection is to strictly limit app installations to the...
December 12, 2025

Why Is My Hard Drive Showing the Wrong Capacity?

Your computer will show the capacity of a 1 Terabyte (TB) hard drive as only 931 Gigabytes (GB). That’s simply a difference in how manufacturers and operating systems define storage (manufacturers use base-10 math, while Windows computers use base-2).  But...
December 10, 2025

Hard Drive Breather Holes: What Happens When You Cover a “Do Not Cover” Hole?

Most mechanical hard drives have a small hole along with text that reads something like: “DO NOT COVER.” This is the hard drive’s breather hole, which equalizes internal pressure with the outside environment. Covering this hole can break your hard...
December 9, 2025

SSD Read-Only Mode: Why It Happens and How to Fix It

You attempt to save a document or transfer a file, and your computer throws an error: The drive is “Write Protected” or you’ve got a “Read-Only File System.”  If this isn’t a permissions error, it’s an issue with your storage...
December 8, 2025

What Are Hard Drive Head Parking Ramps?

Head parking ramps are small, static plastic guides located near the outer edge of a hard disk drive (HDD) platter that provide a safe resting area for the read/write heads when the drive is powered down or idle.  By physically...
December 5, 2025

Google Agentic AI Destroys User’s Data, Then Apologizes Profusely

A developer’s simple request to clear a cache resulted in the total loss of a hard drive partition after Google’s experimental Antigravity AI agent executed the wrong command.  The incident, which is currently going semi-viral on Reddit, has an important...
December 4, 2025

Recognize and Avoid These Common Cryptocurrency Scams

Cryptocurrency scams rely on social engineering, technical deception, and urgency to steal assets that are designed to be difficult to recover. Even if you think that you’re too smart to get scammed, you’re susceptible. We’ve worked with hundreds of individuals...
December 3, 2025

Recovering Lost Dogecoin: Key Challenges

Recovering access to Dogecoin is often possible provided the underlying data — the wallet.dat file, a seed phrase, or a private key — still exists in some form. Losing a password, suffering a hard drive crash, or finding yourself unable...
December 2, 2025

This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Your Data (And Back It Up)

Happy Thanksgiving from Datarecovery.com. While you are enjoying time with family and friends, the last thing you want to worry about is data loss — but we can say with certainty that some people will lose their files this weekend....
November 27, 2025