Archive for December 25th, 2009

What You Should Know About RAID Data Recovery

Under normal conditions, when a hard drive fails, the stored data and information can not be accessed any more. However, Most hard drive failures, specifically the mechanical failure, do not actually erase or remove the data on platter surfaces. It means, this is possible to recover lost data in most of such cases using special [...]

Recover Hard Drive Data – Methods of Recovery

Data retrieval refers to the act of obtaining digital data from sources, from which the data may not be easily available or accessible. There may be various reasons due to which the digital data may have become inaccessible or may not be directly available.
The most common reasons include the data getting corrupt, the data storage [...]

10 Best Backup and Recovery Software For Mac

If Apple tries to convince you that Mac is unassailable, its not exactly so. There’s is no denying Macs are almost impregnable to viruses and spyware unlike the PC’s. Still the Mac systems are vulnerable to hard drive crashes that even both Steves (- Jobs and Wozniak) can’t shirk off. Well such a situation can [...]

Seagate enters solid-state drive market

Seagate is making a belated but potentially market-changing entry into the solid-state drive market. Seagate Pulsar solid-state drive. Solid-state drives are generally faster than hard-disk drives, particularly at retrieving data, and have won limited acceptance in the laptop market. Seagate, however, is targeting the more lucrative and potentially larger server market and will compete with [...]

Critical Data loss and impact on businesses

Computer data may be one of your company’s most vulnerable assets. According to ONTRACK Data Recovery professional labs, the primary Risks threats to your data integrity are as follows:

Hardware or system malfunction: 44%
Human error: 32%
Software program malfunction: 4%
Viruses: 7%
Natural disaster: 3%
This data is based on the actual data recoveries performed by ONTRACK.

These five major threats to [...]