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How to Quickly Check if a Hard Drive is Working Properly Whether you're a private user or work within an IT department, you can sometimes face with a stark reality - hard drives are no longer working...
Storage Board: What is RAID?
Hi, I’m Mikey from Ontrack data recovery and welcome to Storage Board! In this episode, we’re going to look at RAID systems – what they are and how they work – but before we go any further, let’s...
What Is Over-Provisioning And How Does It Benefit An SSD?
To begin with, let's look at how an SSD works and the limits of non-volatile NAND flash memory, so you can understand why an SSD is configured with over-provisioning and what it does for the SSD...
Tell Us How You Entered The IT Industry!
A recent social media post, writing a webinar on tape storage and a recent training has had me thinking of how I started in the IT industry. It has been almost 12 years to the day that I entered the...
42% of used drives sold online are holding sensitive data
Over the years, we have written tiresomely about why it is so important to ensure your sensitive data doesn't get into the wrong hands. From ensuring that second-hand resellers are deleting your data...
What is a disaster recovery plan, and why do you need one?
The ever-increasing amount of data that companies are accumulating has become a massive challenge in the last couple of years. Organizations are processing, transferring and storing more data than...
New Study: Data Deletion Methods Are Not All Equal
Not all attempts at data deletion are successful. We recently released a study with our trusted erasure software partner Blancco Technology Group where we purchased 122 pieces of second-hand...