Data Erasure | Production Environment | Ontrack blog
Securely erasing data is definitely not an easy task. Whether it's a single hard disk drive, an SSD in a laptop or a number of enterprise-class storage devices in a live server – pressing the delete...
How to Protect Your Data on Your Old Mobile Device
With the rising costs of smartphones, many consumers are no longer prepared to pay the hefty price tag that comes with a brand new one. With iPhone´s having passed the $1000 line, many are now...
What is Write Amplification (WA) and how does it effect SSDs?
In a recent blog, we described Garbage Collection and the Trim command. Both are methods to mark and set data that are no longer in use and can, therefore, be overwritten in a Flash NAND based SSD....
How Does Wear Leveling Make Your SSD Live Longer?
In a previous blog, we looked at some of the most basic technologies that make SSDs and their Flash NAND chips work more efficiently and thus live longer. But there is one thing we have not...
How to Diagnose a Physical Hard Drive Failure
Interview with Martin Hiller, Head of Ontrack Clean Room Böblingen, Germany Q: Nowadays, a lot of people who find themselves with physically damaged hard drives try to fix themselves. With so many...
Collection # 1: the newest hack to hit the headlines
The subject of hacking was a top billing in the news for most of 2018, and guess what, it’s happened again! If you aren’t sure what we are talking about, we’ll give you the lowdown! Basically, Troy...