Holiday Classics by CBL
Dec 23
While our experts are still in the data recovery lab helping keep the workshop working this season you can enjoy our collection of holiday-themed classics with a tech twist. From The Grinch, a Lucky Server and Data-Saving Reindeer to the 12 Days of Christmas…err…Data Recovery!
How Do You Pronounce Data?
Nov 19
After watching a handy pronunciation guide video we pondered our own preferences around the office & lab in how to say the word ‘data’. A Star Trek friend also weighed in.
How Well Something Works (After I Decide to Fix It) - an xkcd comic
May 16
A humorous post about repairs from popular webcomic xkcd. We made a small edit.
Data Recovery D-I-WHY
Apr 13
Submitted for your approval, one enthusiastic amateur. Put on earth with a screwdriver, a broken drive, and wholly too much time on his hands. In a moment, we will be shown a miracle brought by magical DVD lasers. Although it’s a fact that he should have trusted the professionals, he will tempt fate by converting a 500GB hard drive to a 1GB Linux boot CD, in… The Recovery Zone.
Tips for Handling Memory Cards Properly*
Aug 3
Are you a digital photographer? Here are some ‘tips’ for working with and handling SD cards and flash memory cards.
Tip #1. Download, email, post-process and/or print your images promptly. If you wait weeks or months, the colors could fade, saturation could suffer and color balance could shift. Or worse, image files could become corrupt or you could misplace your card.
More after the jump!
Dawn of the Tera Era
Jul 28
Hitachi is forecasting the dawn of a new age in storage technology that it has dubbed the “Tera Era”. Watch below with sound!