Hard drive damage due to fire may not be the most common cause of data loss, but is definitely one of the most difficult to recover from. While the physical or mechanical damage to an HDD alone can be devastating in many ways, the hard drive chamber, hard drive assembly (HDA), also often gets heavily […]
Also known as memory cards, SD cards are more resistant to physical damage than other external data storage devices. A memory card has a better chance of surviving extreme conditions like dust, water, shocks, and even drops from great heights than, for example, an HDD. Yet, you can face a corrupted SD card at any […]
Flash drives are popular data storage devices since they are easy to access from anywhere with a USB port. They are also small enough so you can carry them in your wallet. With a lot of write/erase cycles, flash drives offer a suitable solution for the temporary storage of information, such as that big work […]
When it comes to reliability and durability, it’s no secret why solid-state drives are increasingly bypassing traditional HDDs in popularity. Although it’s not impossible to encounter a few SSD problems, SSD failures are much more unlikely to happen when compared to HDDs. Unlike conventional hard disk drives, which are made up of fragile mechanical parts […]
When Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” he actually should’ve added hard drive crashes and running out of disk space. Luckily, while we’re stuck with death and taxes, there is a way to fix the storage problem. Networked storage has moved from enterprise to […]
Mobile phones these days are the bedrock upon which we build our digital lives. With at least half of the world’s population using smart devices and with over half of the world’s web traffic coming from mobile phones, the number of users storing their personal data on smartphones today exceeds 50 percent — so it […]
How much data do we produce? According to the IDC’s report on the ever-growing datasphere, which was released in not-so-far 2018, the total size of the world’s collected data is expected to hit the daunting 175 zettabytes by 2025 — for a compounded annual growth rate of 61 percent. But with surging storage needs across […]
There are several signs of hard disk drive (HDD) failure besides the evident ones like error screen and failure to boot. While they now boast larger storage capacities, more compact sizes, and faster speeds, hard drives still have a quite fragile design. This means that the possibility of breakage or malfunction increases in proportion to […]
It was just a few years ago when a simple backup required Android users to perform a number of complex procedures, involving physical computer connections, intricate third-party software, and at least a couple of adult beverages to get everything synced and properly set up. Luckily, the technological progress doesn’t stay still — and today the […]
