Data loss can be classified as physical, which is a hardware issue, or logical, which is a software issue.  That’s the basic idea — but in many data loss scenarios, damage can be described as both logical and physical. For...

If you’re converting Betacam cassettes to digital formats, you may need to remove audio, particularly if you’re working with broadcast media with musical cues or sound effects.  Here’s an overview of the audio channels of different BetaCam formats:Standard Betacam...

Recovering deleted data from a solid-state drive (SSD) is difficult, but not necessarily impossible. To explain why, we need to provide a basic overview of how SSDs work — and compare that to the way that hard drives operate. When...

Hurricane Ian has dealt an unprecedented blow, killing at least 99 people and causing enormous property damage throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The true scope of the devastation may not be known for weeks or months to come. Datarecovery.com...

Solid-state drives offer numerous advantages for consumers: They’re faster than hard drives, more reliable (although still susceptible to failure), and more energy efficient.  However, they’re also much more expensive. According to Diskprices.com, the least expensive internal hard drives have a...

This week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovered records indicating that Morgan Stanley Wealth Management failed to secure the data of 42 servers, potentially risking the private data of 15 million customers. Morgan Stanley allegedly stored data without ...

For at-scale commercial photo digitization, you'll need to focus on fidelity — and have a plan in place for organizing your media.

For cryptocurrency enthusiasts, a hard fork is potentially exciting news — and the upcoming Ethereum Merge (also called Ethereum 2.0, or simply “the Merge”) could prompt one of the largest forks in recent memory. In September 2022, the Ethereum blockchain...

At Datarecovery.com, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of computer users recover from hard drive failures — but many of those consumers are mystified when we return data on a separate device. That leads to an obvious question: Why can’t we...

The Ethereum network is expected to transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) model in mid-September 2022, which could change the world of cryptocurrency in profound ways. For investors, these are exciting — and frightening — times.  Ethereum is the second-most popular...