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CBL Pictures: Size doesn't matter


May 22, 10:00 AM

We don’t see these sort of gigantic hard drives in our data recovery labs often anymore, but it’s no problem…

The read/write heads of an old hard drive sent in for recovery - pictured with a quarter for size comparison

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Have You Seen My Data?


Mar 19, 11:20 AM

This is more like ‘lost devices’, not quite the kind of data loss we deal with, but at CBL we feel concerned customers’ pain every day in recovery inquiries like these.

Feel the pain of lost data - Full version after the jump

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Saving Eyebeam's Media Archives from Sandy's Hurricane Floodwaters


Jan 16, 11:19 AM

In October, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City causing a record storm surge to sweep through Eyebeam, leaving behind three and a half feet of saltwater mixed with sewage and corrosives.

CBL is all-too-familiar with this sort of recovery scene

This all-too-familiar scenario of data disaster threatening years of digital storage is featured in a great little video and article. Click through to watch after the jump.

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Twelve Days of Data Recovery counted into 2013


Jan 7, 12:05 PM

We counted the 12 Days of Christmas in a data recovery style over the holiday season to take us into 2013. Of course, it wasn’t really 12 days of ‘gifts’ but rather data recovery bits & bytes our customers have given us over the past year.

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