Guides, research, and lab notes from the Datarecovery.com laboratories
A new study indicates that paying for ransomware isn’t a reliable option for disaster recovery. Veeam’s 2023 Data Protection Trends Report found…
Texas will likely become the first state to regulate digital asset providers, which could have enormous ramifications for the cryptocurrency community. House…
When we treat water-damaged hard drives, solid-state drives, and other storage devices, we often receive the devices in plastic bags filled with…
If your computer stores data on a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) drive, you may run into an unusual issue: Windows may…
Before attempting data recovery, engineers must evaluate each ticket to determine the cause (and extent) of data loss. While flat-rate data recovery…
A new ransomware variant targets Zimbra servers, but doesn’t demand a direct payment for decryption. The ransomware, dubbed MalasLocker by BleepingComputer, began…
Modern hard drives use S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) metrics to forecast hardware failures. In most cases, home computer users don’t…
If you’re hit by ransomware, you’re certainly not alone. By one estimate, 2,708 ransomware attacks occurred from April 2022 to March 2023,…
When you’re digitizing a large number of videos, you’ll need to choose an appropriate format for the digital files. Most video formats…
The market for solid-state drives (SSDs) was valued at over $30 billion in 2022, and it’s continuing to grow, for somewhat obvious…
At Datarecovery.com, we discourage the use of data recovery software. Software can exacerbate issues like hard drive head crashes, potentially causing permanent…
Seek error rate is a hard drive performance metric reported through Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) tools. Hard drives, solid-state drives,…
A hard drive’s seek time is the time that the head assembly takes to travel to a specific track on the platters…
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