In March 2022, we posted a detailed breakdown of a 2-terabyte (TB) flash drive available on Amazon for about $40. The drive was a scam, as its actual storage capacity was much lower. While large-capacity flash drives exist, they’re...

Cryptocurrencies use seed phrases, also called recovery phrases, as a sort of master password. If you have the seed phrase, you can restore your crypto assets even if you’ve lost access to your wallet — so if your hard drive...

Following the invasion of Ukraine, activist group Anonymous organized numerous cyberattacks against the Russian Federation. The group’s “Operation Russia” redefined civilian cyberwarfare — and made plenty of headlines along the way.  Some of the attacks have exposed surprising weaknesses in...

As leaders in cryptocurrency recovery, Datarecovery.com often receives questions about the security features of various wallets. While we don’t recommend a specific wallet — or a specific cryptocurrency — we’re happy to address some common misconceptions about the technology.  Recently,...

If you’re not willing to trust a single hard drive (HDD) with your data — or if you need faster performance than you could reasonably attain with a single HDD — RAID makes a lot of sense.  RAID stands for...

Datarecovery.com provides digitization for large archives of photos, slides, negatives, films (including Betacam, BetaSP and Super 8, among others), and other analog media.  Our services are built for scale: We handle thousands of photos at once, applying contextual information (metadata)...

One of the most common questions we receive is regarding our liability to report illegal content on recovered devices.  To be clear, there is certain content that must be reported to the authorities — particularly videos and pictures of child...

USB flash drives are convenient, but if you’re carrying a storage device in your pocket, you’re taking certain risks. We frequently receive flash drives that have been cracked open, snapped in half, or washed in the laundry — obviously, those...

At Datarecovery.com, we’ve restored files for thousands of businesses, non-profits, and personal computer users — and at the end of every case, we usually get the same question: “How can I make sure that this never happens again?” The simple...

If you’re buying a new data storage device, you’ll need to do some research. This is particularly true if you’re buying a solid-state drive (SSD). While SSDs provide better performance than hard risk drives (HDDs), different models have different features...