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What’s in a Solid State Drive?
We get plenty of data recovery cases for solid state drives every year. They are fascinating and fairly complex pieces of technology. With price points dropping and technology improving every year, more and more people are buying SSDs. In fact,…
Cloud Storage vs. Online Backup: Which is Best?
One of the most common objections we hear from users reluctant to make the switch to online backup is the wide variety of cheap cloud storage services on the market today. Who needs online backup when you have Dropbox, Google…
Windows 10: An Overview
Note: Very long post, scroll to whichever headings pique your interest if you don’t want to read the whole thing. Seriously, there’s a lot to cover when writing about a new OS. Last fall, Microsoft announced they would be launching…
Musical Maxtor: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Title pun intended. Long ago, Maxtor was a big player in the hard drive market, until they were acquired by Seagate in 2006. In fact, they were the third largest hard drive manufacturer in the world just before the acquisition. While…
How the Monolith Changed the USB Flash Drive Data Recovery Game
The one thing USB flash drive recovery had going for it was easy direct access to the underlying storage medium. Inside the casing of that USB thumb drive or camera card is an industry-standard NAND flash memory chip. Whereas hard disk platters can…
Data Recovery 101: Read/Write Head Assembly
In Gillware’s latest blog series, “Data Recovery 101″, our bloggers take a closer look at each of the different components of a hard drive and explain how they work, how they fail and how we recover the data from each…
Classic Video: Why Control Board Swaps Don’t Work on Most Hard Drives
Hard drives manufactured in recent years store more data per square inch of platter area than ever before. This increase in data density each device is more complex and sophisticated than their predecessors. To function at these high levels, hard…