WD My Passport Data Recovery
The WD My Passport drive is a portable storage that gives you the confidence and freedom to drive forward in life. With a stylish design that fits in the palm of your hand, there’s space to store, organize, and share your photos, videos, music, and documents. But what to do when it fails and you […]
Why my portable Toshiba drive is clicking?
There are three major reasons for a Toshiba hard drive to start clicking. Modern disk drives are complex devices and while most last three or more years eventually they do fail. Like others, Toshiba hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today Toshiba hard drives come in […]
Western Digital Hard Drive Makes Clicking Noise
There are three major reasons for a Western Digital hard drive to start clicking. Modern disk drives are complex devices and while usually last three or more years they do fail at some point. Like others, Western Digital hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today these […]
Dropped Portable Hard Drive
The most natural action after dropping an external hard drive or laptop, is to turn it on to see if it still works? If you are reading this post, there is a good chance that you had an external hard drive dropped and hit the floor, and after you powered it up it doesn’t work […]
My Seagate Drive is Clicking
Modern hard disk drives are complex devices and while usually last three or more years they do fail for one reason or another. Hard drives have seen great improvements in recent years achieving greater speeds and storage capacities. Today these are made in variety of shapes and sizes and for less money. Hard drives are […]
Riviera Beach agrees to pay $600K to cybercriminals due to ransomware attack
About three weeks ago someone in Riviera Beach, FL police department opened an email infected with ransomware triggering the entire computer system to go down. The security system for the computers that hold all the city’s critical data was so outdated, it was no longer serviceable by company that made it? However city council previously […]
Seagate launched 16 TB Helium-based CMR Drive
Although not the first 16 TB drive publicly announced – Toshiba MG08 series was the first, last week Seagate launched their 16 TB conventional magnetic recording helium drive. These are available under two product lines – the Exos X for datacenters, and the IronWolf / IronWolf Pro for NAS units. Exos X16 The Exos X16 […]
Autonomous Driving & Data Storage
In order to meet specific applications for autonomous driving in cars and trucks industry adopted multiple storage form factors: Removable SD™ Card – one may have used it to load new maps to your navigation, or to record data from your dash camera, etc; eMMC has been an accessible embedded interface in automotive systems for […]
How Data Analyzers Help Reducing e-Waste
In modern world we wait in awe to see when the newest version of a digital gadget is coming out. But where do old obsolete devices end up? Electronic waste is the waste humans generate from broken, obsolete, or discarded electronics and can be just as harmful for the environment as any other waste material. […]
5D optical data storage – Superman memory crystals
On Feb. 6, 2018, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket flew for the first time launching red Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver, Starman, into orbit around the sun. Thus far car and Starman moved beyond Mars moving at a speed of 55 thousand miles per hour. The orbital period is about 557 days. The roadster will […]
