March 27

Spotted in the lab not too long ago we’re still finding innovative data loss solutions for Macs new & old.

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CBL Pictures: Old Mac, Old OS, New Recovered Data!

March 17

Feeling lucky?

Everyone feels lucky until they aren’t. Most people have a false sense of security and hold tightly to the belief that catastrophe “can’t happen to me”. Unfortunately, it can.

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The Bits and Bytes of Backups: Why You Should Prepare for Data Loss
Whatever Is on Your Data Recovery Wishlist

13 December 2022

Whatever Is on Your Data Recovery Wishlist

Even jolly old St. Nick might need some recovery help keeping the workshop working this holiday season.

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Beyond Bytes: Updated Unit Names Needed for Massive Digital Data

30 November 2022

Beyond Bytes: Updated Unit Names Needed for Massive Digital Data

Gigabytes…Terabytes…Petabytes…Zettabytes… Naming units of computer memory follows a standard system of prefixes but after a certain range gets a bit informal. The common and even very large volumes we see in our digital landscape were covered for years. Until now. For the first time in 31 years the International System of Units (SI) has been expanded to include two more prefixes.

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CBL Pictures: Computer Paper

17 November 2022

CBL Pictures: Computer Paper

A throwback to the late 90s when CBL had ads running in a popular national print magazine about tech “The Computer Paper”.

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A Mad Desire in the Lab to Make Data Come Aliiiiive

28 October 2022

A Mad Desire in the Lab to Make Data Come Aliiiiive

CBL can recover data from the most frightening situations but what goes into making your data come alive again isn’t the work of mad scientists in the laboratory. Check out our fun Halloween video.

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Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

7 October 2022

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

A recent Financial Times longread delves into datacenter storage use, e-waste, data security and Big Tech’s reuse practices (or lack thereof). We share a related tech tip for the rest of us.

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