Two weeks ago a ball joint failed catastrophically in my car, taking out everything within a one foot radius of it.  I suspect it overheard my wife talking about having a few spare dollars.  It cost `only’ eight hundred dollars to remove it from the shop. A week ago, my wife heard some squea...

Your laptop hard disk or desktop hard drive crashed and your technician told you it is going to cost you a bomb to recovery/retrieve all the lost data. Don’t be fooled by his sweat talk, and most important of all, don’t panic! When you are not calm, you’re likely to do something yo...

Not all hard drives fail the same way. DataCent, a data recovery service based in Canada, has an impressive archive of failing hard drive sounds. If you’re ever in doubt about whether your hard drive needs help, this is your guide. From bad heads to stuck spindles, bad hard drives click, grind...

Filed under: cons Today wrapped up with a talk on recovering data from solid state hard drives by [Scott Moulton]. The talk focused on the differences in data storage between SSD and platter technology. I did come away with a few interesting bits of knowledge. In an effort to extend device life, fla...

Data loss is a plague that tin poke anyone and anytime, despite the effects of methodological prowess, handling care, operating system or hardware arrangement. In many cases, information loss is caused by factors that are out of our range and regrettably, in some of these lawsuits information recove...

In a multi-million dollar enterprise, the hard disk is more or less the storehouse of all information. If the hard disk crashes, it could give a lot of people sleepless nights and headaches. Surprisingly, the most significant threat to hard drives comes in the form of the people who use them. Advanc...