Can Someone Steal My Crypto with Just a Seed Phrase?

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,...
December 28, 2022

Software RAID vs. Hardware RAID: Advantages and Drawbacks

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...
December 27, 2022

Photo Digitization for Media Archives: 3 Challenges

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)...
December 6, 2022

Do Data Recovery Engineers Care About Pirated Movies and TV Shows?

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...
December 5, 2022

I Snapped My USB Drive in Half. Is It Recoverable?

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...
November 28, 2022

Should I Use Cloud Storage or an External Drive for Data Backup?

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...
November 23, 2022

4 Things to Know About SSD Write Cycles

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...
November 18, 2022

Why People Don’t Back Up Their Data

At Datarecovery.com, we’ve developed industry-leading technology to recover data from hard drives, flash drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), RAID arrays, and practically every other type of storage device. Over decades in the business, we’ve handled cases for Fortune 100 companies, small...
November 17, 2022

Russian Hackers Weaponize Ransomware in War with Ukraine

According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), Russian hackers have used a new malware strain, “Somnia,” to disable information technology (IT) systems in Ukraine. While the government of Ukraine has not confirmed the success of the attack,...
November 14, 2022

Alleged Member of LockBit Ransomware Group Arrested in Canada

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the arrest of Mikhail Vasliev, 33, for suspected involvement in the global LockBit ransomware attacks that have targeted hundreds of organizations over the past two years. Vasliev, who is a Russian-Canadian citizen according...
November 11, 2022