Data Recovery News

By Andrew Whitehead

If you find that your hard drive is no longer functioning, remember that a hard drive recovery is nearly always possible, so there is no need for panic. Data loss is not unusual and in nearly all cases the data can be recovered. Only in severe severe cases involving platter damage, magnetic degradation, or over-write of a file will the data be practically unrecoverable…

Read the article at Initial steps in hard drive recovery

 By Felisa Yang It seems like only yesterday that we were agog at the idea of having tens of gigabytes in a hard drive. Now, a few hard drive vendors who believe that consumers are beyond gigabytes have unleashed terabyte hard drives onto the market. That’s right, a terabyte. That’s 1,000 gigabytes.

Find out more at Terabyte RAID arrays

By Rick Broida

Your music, movies, and other media are no less important than your contact database and business documents, yet we often forget to include them in our backup plans. Even worse, many of us have no backup plan at all. That’s dangerous. As any seasoned computer jockey will tell you, data loss is not a question of if but when.

Read more about this at Back up your digital media

A step-by-step guide for action when you think your disk has crashed. A bit on the techie side, but it’s good knowledge to have at any rate.

Read the steps at Surviving a disk crash

Article by Bill O’Brien 

One of the cheapest ways to speed up your PC is to optimise the memory. So make the most of your PC’s RAM, whether or not you add new modules.

More for the technically inclined at Getting more out of your RAM

Advice from Peter Butler for the rest of the digital pack rats out there…

Find out how to at HD Optimization

The battle is to keep alive Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every 18 months. Moore’s Law has been the driving force behind increasing computing speeds and the decreasing cost of electronics gear over the 40 years since it was coined by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore.

Read more at Computer World

Music engineer Dave Rat switched to Seagate Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drives and Maxtor OneTouch™ III Turbo Edition storage solutions to ensure that every live song from the band’s current tour was securely stored, backed up and safely transported.

Read more at Seagate Customer Stories - RHCP 

By Rick Broida, CNET.com and Jamie Bsales on 28 February 2007 

Blurb:

Are you squinting to see past the dust on your monitor? Does your keyboard hold more food crumbs than the bottom of your toaster?

Is the fan on your PC so clogged with dirt that it sounds like a plane taking off? Then maybe it’s time to clean your PC — for the sake of its health as well as yours.

Read more at cnet.com How to clean your pc

Good for those who’re handy with a can of compressed air… useful information - more people should be reading this and cleaning up.

By Valerie Henson. Article from Computerworld.

Excerpts:

Their first major result was that the real-world failure rate was much higher than manufacturers’ estimates: an average of 3% vs. the estimated 0.5% to 0.9%.

… for an individual user for whom losing his disk is a disaster, replacing the disk at the first sign of a SMART error makes eminent sense.

Read more at Computerworld:  Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises