One iPad's Terrible Trip and the Possibilities of Recovery.
One of our customers accidentally dropped his iPad from a train, in the middle of the woods. Amazingly, they were able to locate the iPad, but it was severely damaged and all the data was lost. Our...
How Ontrack Recovered the Data from Space Shuttle Columbia
What Exactly Happened to Space Shuttle Columbia? February 1th, 2003, after 17 days in space, Space Shuttle Columbia was to land at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:16 am and complete the STS-107...
Linux Data Recovery and Linux File Systems - An Overview
Earlier this year we entered a new era of hard disk storage when manufacturers rolled out a 1TB single hard disk drive. One hard disk drive manufacturer is planning to deliver 4TB hard disk drives in...
Overview of 'Wear Leveling' With SSD Controllers
Wear leveling - what is it? Wear leveling is a technique that some SSD controllers use to increase the lifetime of the memory. The principle is simple: evenly distribute writing on all blocks of a...
Unexpected Data Recovery on Uncommon Devices
In the last couple of years we have been hearing more and more about “The Internet of Things,” but what most people don’t talk about is how many devices in our lives which create and store data. Yes,...
Data Backup Still Uncommon According to Ontrack Survey
A worldwide survey of just under 350 Ontrack data recovery customers at this year's World Backup Day revealed that more than a third of the respondents did not back up at all when they lost their...
What Does Encrypted Mean? The Various Levels of Encryption
What is encryption? Encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as...