We and numerous other companies within the data recovery and tech-spheres have written about how, in the age of big data, we’re producing files at such a rate that there is an urgent need for media to offer far greater storage density than is currently possible. Several potential solutions for this problem have been posited by scientists throughout the last decade. One, though, has captured the imagination like no ot...
USB flash drives are convenient, easy-to-use and – thanks to continuously developing technology – can even offer up to 2TBs of storage. For all of the positives these mobile and reliable pieces of storage media offer, however, their diminutiveness and fragility are significant problems that are regularly behind physical damage that leads to data loss. So delicate are these devices that it’s by no means uncommon for t...
It’s clear that smartphoneshave revolutionised the way we live. We’re only ever a few clicks away from the latest news or discovering what’s happening in our friends’ lives, but all this increased connectivity comes at a cost: low-battery anxiety. Research has shown that an astonishing 90% of us feel anxious when our smartphone’s battery drops below 20% (considering how anxious many of our clients are as a result of ...
Following on from our post explaining how HDDs work, we thought we’d follow it up with a piece on how SSDs – and all flash-based storage media for that matter – works. As we’ve stated previously, hard drives store data by writing it onto a thin layer of magnetic material. The data is translated into a series of ones and zeroes that is known as binary. This is then translated back into the piece of data you stored whe...
Hard drives, for the most part, are extremely reliable. Yes, some suffer from mechanical failure, but this is rare. Other faults are equally atypical and the number one cause of data loss is actually human error, specifically from drops, shocks etc. Astute manufacturers – aware of both this and that there were users who would go to great lengths to protect their data – began offering external drives housed in durable...
SSDs are quicker, are growing in popularity and are viewed - amongst those with an interest in technology, at least – as being significantly sexier than HDDs. So much so, that some have predicted that SSDs are to HDDs what Netflix is to DVDs or, perhaps more accurately, what DVDs where to VHS: a superior piece of technology that will render its competitor obsolete. With the emergence of big data, cold storage and clo...
For those of us looking to keep our most sensitive data safe, storing it on a drive that was unnetworked went a long way towards ensuring it was secure. The logic behind this principal was pretty straightforward: data held on a piece of unnetworked storage media can only be accessed by those who can physically access it. In other words, hackers could not remotely access it and retrieve data held on these drives. Now,...
Hard drives have moving parts and when things move, they often create sound. To put it another way, like a car engine, your hard drive can be noisy and still healthy. Some sounds, though, indicate that something is seriously wrong. Typically, hard drives will make low-pitched whirring or whining noises – particularly when they’re booting up or accessing/storing data – or clicking noises. These are usually perfectly n...
The importance of ensuring that your critical data is regularly backed up and readily accessible cannot be understated within the world of business. Data recovery services are available, of course, but they can't prevent the short-term damage caused by data loss. Thanks to growing awareness with regards to the role data now plays within the world of business, most owners and decision makers understand the importance ...
On Saturday the 31st March 2018, the world mutedly celebrated what is, in the opinion of Fields Data Recovery, one of the most deserving yet little-known awareness days there is: World Backup Day. It’s understandable that this day doesn’t generate the same degree of coverage as those designed to promote check-ups that could save lives or draw attention to suffering, but the fact that so few of us are aware of this da...