Data Recovery News

19 July 2007

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

Scientists have discovered that “avalanche” effects in spinning magnetic fields can cause data loss in disk drives - and are working on changes to recording layer chemistry that should give us more reliable storage.

Read more at Disk data loss caused by magnetic avalanches

When it comes to data recovery there are a lot of myths out there. People are recommending Scandisk or some 10 year old DOS utility as the most sophisticated data recovery tools.

When turning to a discussion group for help after a system crash, you often get to hear: “Just recover from your back-up - you have one, don’t you?” Now - that’s helpful!

Be assured, most of what you hear about data recovery is not true. Read on… at About data recovery

Can’t boot up? Sometimes, it may be due to a boot sector virus.
This site contains some fairly easy reading about boot sector viruses.

Learn about them at Boot Sector Viruses

MUNICH, Germany-July 18, 2007-Renowned fine art photographer Andreas Gursky relies on technology from hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) to store his images. Gursky takes hundreds of exposures to piece together a single image, eliminating distracting details and adding parts to form a new world; a world that needs vast amounts of digital storage to exist.

Read more at Seagate Technology — Andreas Gursky

Here are five ways to avoid PC disasters. If you do only four of them, you’re courting danger. Security Step One is a Full Backup.

1. Back Up Your Software
2. Make an Emergency Disk
3. Defrag Your Hard Drive
4. Block the Bad Guys
5. Another Networking Fix

Learn more at Five Steps to Protecting Your System

HP today announced its continued leadership in several key segments of the server and storage market in Asia Pacific (inc. Japan) in first calendar quarter 2007. According to IDC, HP maintained the No.1 position in x86 server shipments in CYQ1, 2007 for the 20th consecutive quarter…

Read more at HP again No. 1

Singapore, July 18, 2007 – Springboard Research today announced that is has released its latest Webcast detailing the “Top Ten Trends in Enterprise IT” that technology vendors can expect to see in the next 12 to 18 months.

The predictions (in-depth coverage of each prediction is provided in the Webcast) are:

1. Consumer technology will influence Enterprise IT

2. Web 2.0 hype to continue

3. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to become broadly accepted

For further information, go to Springboard Research: Top 10 Trends

The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.

Half of silicon.com’s 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the Vista factor is likely to lead to an increase in Macs on the desktop in the corporate computing environment.

Read more at Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux?

Looking for BIGGER storage?

The good: Four connection options: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800, and serial/RS-232; front-mounted LCD advises you of the status of the drive; supports several RAID arrays; supports a variety of file systems; drives are hot-swappable.

For the Bad and further info: LaCie Biggest FW800  

This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending where you are on the future history curve.

Learn more at Flash memory versus HDD