Datarecovery.com Offers 50% Discount for Hurricane Ian Victims

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...
October 4, 2022

Will SSDs Reach Price Parity with Hard Drives in 2023?

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...
October 3, 2022

Throwing Out an Old Hard Drive? Here’s How to Protect Your Data

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 ...
September 21, 2022

Commercial Photo Digitization: 3 Factors to Consider

For at-scale commercial photo digitization, you'll need to focus on fidelity — and have a plan in place for organizing your media.
September 12, 2022

Will the Ethereum Merge Cause a Fork in the Blockchain?

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...
August 31, 2022

Why “Hard Drive Repair” Doesn’t Really Exist

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...
August 29, 2022

The Ethereum Merge is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know

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...
August 26, 2022

Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” Can Crash Some Hard Drives

Great music can change the world — and, apparently, crash some hard drives. A recent report published by Microsoft showcases a novel issue with older laptop hard drives. Here’s the full text of the report from the National Vulnerability Database...
August 23, 2022

Man Who Lost $191 Million in Bitcoin Wants to Use a Robot Dog to Find It

James Howells, who lost 8,000 bitcoins when he accidentally threw out his hard drive, wants to use two robotic dogs to find his data.
July 29, 2022

Please Don’t Pry Open Your Hard Drive (Unless You Don’t Need the Data)

At Datarecovery.com, we support consumers’ right to repair their own devices. If you pay $1,000 for a smartphone, you should have the option of repairing a broken screen or a busted USB-C port on your own. Generally speaking, manufacturers shouldn’t...
July 28, 2022