Reusing Smartphone Memory Chips in Brand New USB Drives
At an international computer forensics conference in March of this year, experts and law enforcement collaborators discussed a serious challenge investigators are facing when analyzing data from USB...
Why Tape Migration is Still Important
The magnetic tape is by no means dead. The advantages for tape media are obvious: low cost for the capacity and a long storage lifespan. Tape has been around for quite some time. In fact, it was the...
How to Recover Your Own Data Without Data Recovery Software
Given that you are reading the blog from a data recovery company, you probably already know that “deleted” data does not immediately disappear from a drive, but is rather simply marked for...
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...
Recovering Data from Solid State Drive (SSD) | Ontrack
The Solid State Drive (SSD) is continuously becoming more and more prevalent and is starting to become the norm as home computing devices. Image source:...
Top 10 DIY Data Recovery Fails
For anyone looking to brave a do-it-yourself (DIY) project, the internet has a wealth of knowledge, even for DIY data recovery. Whether it is baking a dinosaur cake or fixing the kitchen sink, you...
9 Ways to Avoid Summer Data Loss Scenarios
Over the years, we have noticed a trend of increased data loss during the summer months. Extreme heat and summer storms are often the culprits behind these losses. We have put together some helpful...