http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog Datadetect - data recovery specialists Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:44:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Data loss is one of the risks of modern technology. Most companies and individuals will face data loss sooner or later. Although back-ups are made, there is always a risk of hard drive failure. You can imagine the chaos when critical data is lost, and it needs to ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/11/data-loss-what-do-i-do-now/ The Data Detect technicians keep a close eye on all the latest hardware and trends. You can imagine the excitement from our team when we heard about Western Digital's launch of the new 750 GB and 1 TB WD RE3 SATA hard drives that were added to the company's ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/10/western-digital-adds-750-g-and-1-tb-hard-drives-to-their-successful-wd-ret-hard-drive-product-range/ Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk drives have worked their way through a range of performance and reliability problems to become a major feature in data storage systems. Aside from their rapid data transfer rate, they make it possible for companies to increase their storage capacity (into the terabyte range) ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/08/sata-disk-drives-still-have-some-way-to-go-to-reach-perfection/ Solid state drives (SSDs) are marketed primarily on the basis that they are more energy efficient than traditional magnetic hard drives. According to the theory, the fact that SSDs don’t have any moving parts means that they consume less energy than regular hard drives that have spinning platters and movable ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/07/ssds-not-all-theyre-cracked-up-to-be/ If you’re an avid Star Trek fan (as I am), and even if you’re not (poor culturally deprived person), you’ll be able to appreciate the significance of the latest medical technology breakthrough. Doctors in Star Trek are never without their tricorders,which are very cool handheld devices that can diagnose everything ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/07/beam-me-up-scotty-star-trek-technology-about-to-become-reality/ There are many reasons to love mobile technology: it’s convenient, it’s accessible and it’s improving all the time. Nokia is only one of the companies that are hard at work perfecting innovative initiatives that they hope will revolutionise mobile technology, making it even more indispensable than it already is. According ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/07/sensors-in-cell-phones-provide-more-reasons-to-love-mobile-technology/ The world of television and film has influenced users to think of crime laboratories, where evidence is analysed, to be clean white areas with microscopes and glass jars. Data recovery isn’t far from that image. They do have clean rooms, which resemble a lab. These rooms are purely there to ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/02/forensic-recovery-cache-24/ Professional photographers use microdrives in order to take large numbers of high-resolution, good quality pictures in one sitting. Microdrives are essentially tiny hard drives - usually one inch big - and slot into the camera where the flash memory would normally fit. Their biggest benefit is their 4BG size, ensuring ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/01/microdrives-for-photo-fanatics/ Don't slap it, freeze it, spin it or smother it in peanut butter. Computer users are often frustrated and concerned that necessary data has been permanently lost when a hard drive gives up. To follow are a few facts that you need to remember when facing situations of data loss. On ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2008/01/data-recovery-myth-buster/ Loss of data is a major concern for all businesses everywhere. It doesn’t matter what type of business it is or how big or small it is, if valuable data is lost it can set them back weeks or months and will cost them time and money. One solution to ... http://www.datadetect.com.au/blog/2007/11/continuous-data-protection/