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3 Things Driving Data in 2024
Feb 2
In 2024, data trends are being driven by our creation, capacity to store, and the challenges of protecting it. Here’s a breakdown of those 3 key areas to watch this year in storage tech and data use.
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Behind the Big Data: Revealing Our Galaxy's Black Hole
May 18
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope project revealed the first-ever image of the black hole that sits at the center of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A*. It was produced using observation data collected from the network of telescopes situated around the globe. How much data must you compute to get an image of an object that’s 27,000 light-years away, is 4 millions times more massive than our Sun, from a network of telescopes that make a dish the size of the Earth?
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Sounds Like Something Is Wrong...
Apr 14
Hard drive making weird noises suddenly? Watch a clip from the recovery lab and you be the judge.
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4 Storage Tech Trends for 2022
Mar 8
How data is stored and where we use it isn’t exactly the same as it was 10 years ago, let alone even a few years ago. For 2022 multiple things are in play from technological advances to our data storage needs as well as general market forces. Here’s 4 storage tech trends to watch this year from HDD & SSD competition, to storage capacities, flash memory and the pandemic effects on data use.
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CBL Pictures: How it started... How it's going
Feb 17
Some devices in the lab recently for recovery service with many years between them reminded us of a social trend comparing old and new.
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CBL Pictures: Easy to See Not-So Hot Fate for Not-So Burnt Hard Drives
Aug 27
Throwback to this pair of fire-burned drives spotted in the lab whose not-so hot fate was pretty easily determined early into the recovery project.
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Predicting Where Storage Is Going in 2021
Jan 25
As the year begins we look at trends in the digital storage world, projections for the market and technologies that will impact how data is stored and used in 2021.
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Throwback: Creating the First Hard Disk Drive at IBM
Jul 3
A promotional film that IBM made in the 1950s looks at the creation of the first hard disk drive and is a retro video throwback to tech innovation and marketing of the time reminding us how far we’ve come and of artifacts from our own data recovery archives.
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Black Hole: It Takes Big Data to See The Big Picture
Apr 11
The first-ever image of a black hole was revealed to the world by an international team of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project in a culmination of years of work, astronomy and computer science feats. How much data must you compute to get an image of something that’s 55 million light-years away, has a mass 6.5 billion times that of our own sun, from a network of 8 telescopes that combine to make a dish the size of the Earth?
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CBL Pictures: Burnt Bytes and Backups
Nov 16
Recently, we received this laptop for recovery. The fire had ravaged the client’s home, destroying the laptop, and the backup device sitting nearby.
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CBL Pictures: Fire Damaged Hard Drives
Jul 22
When we receive fire-damaged hard drives and computers in need of data recovery service, usually they aren’t in terribly bad shape. As you can see in these photos, unfortunately wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada incurred extreme destruction on these drives. Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery.
More pics after the jump …