Hard drive platter contamination occurs when foreign particles (or contaminants) reach the platters that store your data. The platters are thin metal or plastic discs covered with a thin magnetic material.  Under normal conditions, read/write heads float just above the...

Ascension, which operates 140 hospitals across the United States, has confirmed that an ongoing service outage was caused by a ransomware attack.  The organization says that they have implemented procedures to “ensure patient care delivery continues to be safe and...

You should never toss a hard drive into a dumpster — hard drives are recyclable, and given that we create more than 59 million tons of electronic waste every year, every bit of recycling counts (pardon the pun).  But while...

An analysis from Trendforce predicts that global prices for hard disk drives (HDD) will rise significantly in the near future, spurred in part by rising demand created by artificial intelligence (AI).  The analysis is fairly barebones; Trendforce quotes reports from...

If you need to recover data from a dashcam, you’ve probably got a very good reason (and we’re guessing that it involves an insurance claim).  The good news is that dash cams aren’t magic boxes; they’re standard digital devices. They...

If you’re wondering whether your hard drive can reliably store data, there’s a good chance that it cannot — any hard drive that shows any unusual physical symptoms has a higher-than-average probability of failure.In fact, even when a hard...

Bitcoin transaction fees rose to an all-time high on Saturday, April 20, 2024, reaching an astounding $128.45 USD before dropping back down to around $35 USD on Sunday.  Transaction fees — also called network fees — are small amounts of...

Data recovery laboratories can restore data from fire-damaged hard drives, flooded servers, and ransomware-infected RAID arrays — but if you break a memory card in half, many professional providers will refuse to take the case. Unfortunately, breaking a NAND memory...

In an apparent attempt to compel their victim to pay up, the ransomware gang DragonForce has published a recording of a phone call with one of its victims’ employees. The recording was published on DragonForce’s dark web page. For ethical...

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector on hard drives or other storage media on PC systems. It includes information about a disc’s partitions, along with an executable code that allows the computer to load the installed operating...