Overview of 'Wear Leveling' With SSD Controllers

September 06, 2022

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...

September 06, 2022

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,...

September 06, 2022

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...

September 06, 2022

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...

September 06, 2022

Long Term Archiving: Backup for Eternity

Which storage media is best for long-term archiving? Since the early days of computers there is always the question which media is the best to store data for a very long time. Back in the sixties and...

September 06, 2022

What is the Future of SATA and SAS SSDs?

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have become more and more prevalent over the years and are starting to become the norm for home computing devices. They are also now extensively present in enterprise-class...

September 06, 2022

Kingston Technology Guest Post: SSDs as Hard Disk Replacement

Over the next few months, Kingston Technology and Ontrack Data Recovery will be launching a new series of articles focusing on the 'Use of SSD's in IT.' Each blog will aim to provide basic...

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