Are There Better Ways to Destroy Smart Phone Data Than With a Hammer?
First - is it possible to destroy smart phone data with a hammer? Over the years of recovering data, the engineers at Ontrack have witnessed some pretty rough devices come through. With so many...
How to Protect Your Digital Assets: Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency has been a very hot topic in the news, especially in the last few months. This is due to the fact that these "currencies" have drastically gone up in value, especially in the last six...
Hard Drive | HDD | SSD | Data Recovery | Ontrack blog
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...