Mean Time Between Failures: Can it help predict hard drive failure?

19 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Here at Ontrack, we're well aware that data loss can affect anyone. For many of us, it comes in the form of hard disk drive (HDD) failure - an umbrella term for mechanical, electronic and logical...

15 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Data recovery - step by step process

So what is the process of data recovery? A bit like recreating a loaf of bread from a kilogram of breadcrumbs. When we received the disk drive from the US space shuttle Columbia (the American space...

14 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Private investigation: The File Systems

The logical data structure on the disk is managed by the file system. FAT (File Allocation Tables) used to be a very popular file system known from DOS. Nowadays they’ve been replaced almost...

13 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Where are my files? The investigation continues…

Probably everyone is familiar with a popular myth about the origin of the Internet. A global network was designed in the '60s for the military. The network required communication to be allowed in the...

11 May 2015 00:00:00 EDT

Causes of data loss

Over the last 30 years, Ontrack engineers have restored a total of 103 million gigabytes. To store all that data, we would need about 25 million 4GB flash drives! In this post, I want to share a few...

28 April 2015 00:00:00 EDT

“Cracked” Samsung SSD Controller Encryption

The pitfalls of automatic hardware encryption of fast Samsung SSD hard drives have been fatal for three senior staff members of a reputable audit firm. When the laptops of the managers were booted...

17 April 2015 00:00:00 EDT

14 ways to get the most from your RAID system

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It’s a set of independent hard drives able to provide redundancy, designed to keep the system online, and are mainly used in businesses server...

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