Watch out for data recovery services that advertise multiple locations.
One thing I’ve noticed over the past few months is the very common practice of listing “Multiple Locations” or “Many Locations Nationwide” in the hard drive recovery business.
We built our Class 10 / Class 100 cleanroom (and security systems) last year and...
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The Data Rescue Center's UL Listed Class 2 Vault
When you contract a data lab for hard drive recovery, you want to be sure that your data is safe and secure. We understand the importance of your data. Therefore, we have put massive security controls in place to protect your...
Common data recovery myths
IDC’s recent Digital Universe study determined that data doubles every year across the world. In fact, data will reach 1.8 trillion gigabytes this year. With this constant increase in data, the risk of data loss also increases. Studies show that one in every 1,000 computers will suffer...
Be prepared for a data recovery emergency
We are prepared for a variety of computer data emergencies at The Data Rescue Center. If you are the information technology engineer for your company, the stress caused by data loss is overwhelming unless you are also prepared. The Data Rescue Center wants to partner...
The Data Rescue Center offers excellent customer service
I’m going to make a profound statement: Data recovery is not the same as, say, lawn mower servicing. Hard drive recovery is obviously more involved and is an extremely technical task. A hard drive recovery engineer cannot just get a repair manual and attempt...
Data recovery scams and tricks to be aware of...
One of the worst things seen in the computer recovery industry is the outright scams and dirty tricks that are prevalent.
Lock Your Drive: You send your drive off to a company and they quote you $2000.. Yikes, that’s a lot, so you send it...
Watch out for companies offering a "Low-Cost Guarantee"
Low-Cost / Maximum Cost Guarantees: Any company that promises you a “Guaranteed” cost of $399 or $499 without ever seeing your drive. That will not get you physical recovery. When they claim that, they are hoping you send the hard drive in without...
Class 100 Cleanroom
Physical hard drive failure occurs when one of the mechanisms inside of your hard drive breaks or fails. Realizing that your hard drive is spinning around inside at speeds of up to 10,000 rotations per minute (even faster in some top-speed drives), you can imagine that something might go...
Cloud computing and security?
Cloud computing is a hot topic these days. According to some folks, everyone needs to move their personal and business computing to the cloud. Apps hosted online run the gamut from email to office productivity. Computers are being developed that work almost entirely online. For example, the...