What is TCG Opal Encryption?

18 December 2018 00:00:00 EST

TCG Opal stands for Trusted Computing Group OPAL. The Trusted Computing Group is an organisation that develops open standards for trusted computing platforms. It is run by leading companies from the...

21 June 2017 00:00:00 EDT

How Ontrack recovered data from the Columbia space shuttle disaster

It’s February 1st 2003, and after 17 days in space the Columbia space shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Centre at 9:16am, marking the end of the STS-107 mission. At approximately...

03 February 2017 00:00:00 EST

How do you check the health of a hard drive?

Whether you are a private user or work within an IT department, you can sometimes be presented with a stark reality; hard drives are no longer working as they should and/or data suddenly disappears....

11 October 2016 00:00:00 EDT

What's the next step in HDD technology?

A new PMR technology for HDDs A new PMR method of storing data on a hard disk drive (HDD) is the Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording (TDMR) technology. This method is currently being researched by...

07 October 2016 00:00:00 EDT

What does the future hold for hard disk drives?

Even though sales of SSD-based media is on the rise, traditional magnetic hard disk (HDD) media are still quite popular both for private users as well as for businesses. Even though SSD prices have...

05 August 2016 00:00:00 EDT

What is physical media damage?

Ever had a drive that fell from your desk? Or had it experience a fire (and ensuing water from the sprinklers)? These and many other types of damages that a drive can experience are known as physical...

18 May 2016 00:00:00 EDT

HDD vs SSD - which lasts longer?

Many comparisons can be made between a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and a Solid State Drive (SSD); cost, speed, data storage capacity – there’s no end of areas to consider. However in this post, we’ll be...

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