SSD vs. HDD – Data Destruction and Asset Disposal
Why care about data destruction and asset disposal? According to the US Department of Commerce, data security breaches cost US companies more than $250 billion per year! A few examples will help...
The Top Five Triggers for Migrating Tapes
Change is rarely comfortable, but as Winston Churchill said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” In business, there can be many reasons for organizations to modify or even...
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...