CBL Pictures: From the Ashes II - Server Fire

25 September 2013

CBL Pictures: From the Ashes II - Server Fire

In a fire computers in your home or office really feel the heat. Rising temperatures affect both the exterior and interior of a machine as electronic components made of metal and plastic burn, melt and corrode. It’s a mess our labs often get dirty with. And the...

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CBL Pictures: Size doesn't matter

22 May 2013

CBL Pictures: Size doesn't matter

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?

19 March 2013

Have You Seen My Data?

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

16 January 2013

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

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. The data disaster threatening years of digital storage is featured in a great little video and article.

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