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West Joins East: Western Digital buying Hitachi Global Storage
7 March 2011
Western Digital announced earlier today that it will be purchasing Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a deal worth $4.3 Billion. The landscape of storage manufacturers just got a bit smaller, but it remains a massive growing technology industry.
A Large Piece of Storage Technology History
22 February 2011
Do you know what this is being loaded onto a plane?
All We See Is The Code
27 September 2010
Unless you have experienced a hard drive failure, you may not be aware of the complexity how data is stored. A CBL data recovery expert sees a string of ones and zeroes organized in a perfect pattern otherwise known as your once-in-a-lifetime trip to Paris. It’s all about perspective.
CBL Pictures: Just an Ordinary PCB
19 March 2010
Just an Ordinary PCB?
Find out more after the jump.
Software vs Hardware Recovery
9 September 2009
Conventional wisdom would dictate that a software-based data recovery would be more economical than a hardware-based recovery. This is not always the case. Both methodologies can involve quite a bit of hands on involvement.
CBL Pictures: Head Stack Assembly
24 April 2009
Here’s a picture of a head stack assembly removed from a hard drive. It was taken from a multi-platter drive during a recovery. So how do you remove the head stack from a hard drive? Very carefully.
Can you afford to be without your data?
14 January 2009
Hard drives don’t discriminate. Whether the economy is in a recession or a boom, no one is immune to data loss. It’s never a matter of IF data loss will happen; it’s simply a matter of WHEN.
