Causes and Symptoms of Data Loss

It's a common belief that natural disasters account for most of the data lost in today's corporate world. Disasters such as floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes, however, only account for 1% of all data lost in today's businesses.

How Data Recovery is Performed on Failed RAID 5 Arrays

A brief discussion of the problems that can occur with RAID 5 arrays. Also offers ways users can ensure a RAID 5 recovery is more successful.

OST File Recovery and PST File Recovery

Confused about what is Exchange Server, OST and PST. The article defines what is an Exchange Server, OST and PST files? The OST conversions to PST are easy to perform and can be made through OST recovery software.

My Office Computer Crashed! How The Mirror Copy Saved My Data?

Mirroring data while backing up reduces data security problem. This is an example of a product that, not only backups up, but also mirrors data.

All About RAID

RAID is the short form of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, where Inexpensive is often replaced with Independent. A few years back when the disks had less storage capacity with expensive prices, a couple of disks were mounted to create a larger virtual disk, and it was much more logical and easily administered.

Understanding How Firewalls Protect Your Computer

To get and keep our computers safe from hackers,or anyone wanting to have a look in our computers,we need the aid and assistance of something commonly called Firewalls. A Firewall can be hardware or software that acts as a gatekeeper to your computer. It does this by monitoring all internet traffic coming in and going out of our computers.

Understanding Data Loss and Data Recovery

Data recovery is the solution to lost files. Data do not just disappear in one click but some of them are stored and could be recovered.

Spybot Search and Destroy - 2007 5 Tips to Stop Spyware

Find out the truth that they don't want you to know about spyware and adware downloads. Find out the truth about stoping annoying Pop ups for good. See the truth and stop the headaches free your PC today.

Infrastructure Decimated By Earthquake In Kobe, Japan On January 17, 1995

On January 17th, 1995 a massive earthquake hit the region of Kobe, Japan. This quake was unique in that it occurred at the intersection of three tectonic plates. This resulted in enormous damage to the area. Buildings collapsed, roads were destroyed, and utilities went offline for days.

Huge Landslide Destroys Ski Resort

On July 30, 1997 a huge landslide rolled over the Thredbo Ski village in Australia causing massive damage and virtually burying the resort; cars, buildings, people and all! The loose earth, rock, and foliage swept down the slope and crashed into the Bimbadeen Lodge, a multi-level building, used to house guests. Eighteen people died as a direct result of the landslide, most were buried alive.

How Data Is Stored On A Hard Drive

A brief explanation how data is stored on a hard drive and the types of hard disk failure that can occur.

Data Recovery Tips And Tricks

Data loss is a plague that can hit anyone and anytime, regardless of technical prowess, handling care, operating system or hardware configuration. In many cases, data loss is caused by factors that are out of our reach and unfortunately, in some of these cases data recovery is impossible. A burnt out hard disk is the clearest example that comes to mind. It's often not your fault that it breaks down and data recovery is impossible. This is a rare case still and most data loss problems can be fixed with the help of data recovery tools.

Avoiding Data Recovery On External Hard Disk Drives

With storage capacity running in hundreds of Gigabites, accompanied by high rates of data transfer, in addition to the flexibility to plug the external drive to a Laptop, Desktop, Server, Memory cards, Camera or iPod and sold at reasonable prices have increased their popularity dramatically. However, as the popularity of the external drives containing backups and valuable data are increasingly failing for no apparent reasons. Majority of these failing drives are often of well known commercial brands such as Lacie, Freecom and Omega and with the latest high capacity Maxtor, Seagate or Western Digital hard disk drives models with storage capacity exceeding 320Gb or even 400Gb on a single drive.

Backups That Cost Almost Nothing

Learn the cheapest and most reliable backup options for your valuable data of your SOHO.