Saturday, May 19, 2007
Types of Data Recovery Services
Advanced data recovery software can intelligently scan your hard drive at a low level to find and recover your digital photos, movies and computer files. No matter the file format data recovery software can recover them all if it is able to read the hard drive.
Most data recovery software use advanced algorithms to deeply scan your hard drive for lost, deleted and/or formatted files. Ideally you want the data recovery software to be easy to use with a GUI for the OS or even in DOS. The data recovery software should allow you to recover deleted files, folders and complete partitions quickly and easily.
Professional data recovery software can also offer a complete solution for your data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostic needs. Some recovery software will offer viewing capabilities to allow you to preview recovered files. For the most severe recovery situations, data recovery software can contain added raw recovery support for over 290 specific file types including document files, MIDI music files, voice files, digital media files, and more.
Most data recovery software these days will support multiple drive formats including: IDE/ATA/EIDE/SATA/SCSI hard drives, Jaz/Zip removable media, Floppy Diskettes, External Media Devices (USB-FireWire hard drives and portable discs), Digital Media (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, flash memory cards and sticks). Certain data recovery software can even analyze network and wan drives.
Data recovery software analysis and repair tools check and review the consistency of the server data and status before starting the backup and the data recovery process to help alleviate any issues that may cause a serious problem. Data recovery software should be in everyone’s software utilities toolbox along with antivirus and firewall software.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Company offers 25gb of free online storage
Before the tech bubble burst plenty of companies were offering online storage for free. At that time companies like Xdrive were only offering measly megabytes for gratis. Now, six years later with drive storage capacity per disc outpacing Moore’s law a company like Streamload can offer 25gb of storage for free.
Now they do seem to have a viable business plan that seems like a real good deal for customers as well. They offer the basic 25gb with a monthly 100mb download for free but you can trade up to plans that offer higher monthly downloads with unlimited storage for very reasonable rates. Considering I recently paid $120 for a 300gb Maxtor drive plus an additional $60 for a hard drive enclosure paying $100 a year for up to 300gb of annual download seems like a pretty good deal. Plus you save the time and hassle of formatting the drive and other headaches like discovering the drive you purchased is unstable with the enclosure thus losing your backup after two weeks (which is what happened to me).
Worth checking out.