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...

Ransomware payments reached an estimated $1.1 billion in 2023, per a report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. It’s no wonder that ransomware is a growing threat — and from the victims’ perspective, the temptation to pay is certainly understandable. But...

Bitcoin halving is a built-in feature of Bitcoin that cuts the rewards for mining by 50%. This occurs after 210,000 blocks of mining — or approximately every four years.  In 2024, Bitcoin halving day is expected to occur around April...

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (or, alternatively, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). It’s a technology that allows multiple hard drives or solid-state drives to function as a single volume.  The primary advantage of RAID is right in...