What Should I Look Out for When Choosing a Data Recovery Company?

Jul 12, 2019 12:00:00 AM

If you end up in a situation where you find yourself in need of data recovery, the company you choose to do the job needs to be trustworthy and reliable. In most cases, you only get one chance at...

Jun 3, 2019 12:00:00 AM

Hard Drive | SSD vs Fake SSD | Ontrack blog

Many of us know that we need to be aware of scammers online. Unfortunately, some products being sold online look and sound so genuine many people fall victim to them. Over the last few months, it has...

Apr 18, 2019 12:00:00 AM

Data in Outer Space: How to Store Data on Mars

Storing data in outer space is no walk in the park! There are many differences between using computers on Earth and operating them on another planet, or just space in general. Luckily, a few...

Jan 24, 2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

Jan 22, 2019 12:00:00 AM

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...

Dec 13, 2018 12:00:00 AM

Effects of Garbage Collection and TRIM on SSD Performance

All Flash–based storage devices, SSDs included, are unique in the way they deal with previously deleted data. When a file is deleted in Windows or any OS, the file still exists on the storage device,...

Nov 8, 2018 12:00:00 AM

What Is Over-Provisioning And How Does It Benefit An SSD?

To begin with, let's look at how an SSD works and the limits of non-volatile NAND flash memory, so you can understand why an SSD is configured with over-provisioning and what it does for the SSD...

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