Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Pros and Cons of Recycled Tape Media

By: Christine Harrell

Buying recycled tape media for your storage drives can be a smart way to reduce costs associated with data storage. However, there are facts that you must consider before choosing lower-cost recycled tape storage. While some businesses regularly use recycled tape media to meet their data storage needs, there are arguments against its use as well.

Just like the audio tapes that you could re-record again and again, computer data can be erased, resold, and reused. Companies that sell recycled tape storage such as Graham Magnetics and DTC buy used cartridges from businesses, then inspect, test, and retest each individual cartridge and sell it as "like new." Because these are not new, it's less expensive than buying it as new.

If you do decide to use recycled data storage, it's important that you choose a company that guarantees and certifies the quality. There is no industry standard definition of "certified" when it comes to this type tape storage. The value of the certification is essentially as strong as the reputation of the company that provides the refurbished tape and marks it as certified.

The most prominent concern with purchasing used tape media is that the end consumer has no idea where they originated or how it has been cared for. Though high-quality tape recycling companies thoroughly test and hinge their reputation on the quality of what they are selling, the 'origin unknown' factor just doesn't sit well with some.

Tape media doesn't last forever and does deteriorate over time. With used products, one doesn't necessarily know how far along in its lifespan an individual used cartridge is. High temperatures and humidity are both factors that can shorten the lifespan, no matter its age. If stored properly, new cartridges will generally last for 20 years.

Suppliers of used tape media often offer their own lifespan guarantees. Graham Magnetics for example offers a quality guarantee of 10 years while DTC backs the quality of their cartridges for 5 years. If you're serious about keeping your data for longer than can be guaranteed by a recycled tape media provider, then you may want to choose to purchase new cartridges.

The choice to use new or recycled depends on your company's current situation. For a new, budget conscious company, choosing recycled storage for its lower cost is far better than holding off on implementing a data storage solution because of the cost of new media. Plenty of companies have relied on recycled tape media with no problems whatsoever, but ultimately you must balance the potential risks and rewards associated with new and used tape media against your individual business strategy.



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Sunday, July 27, 2008

CD Data Recovery

CD Data Recovery - A Simple Procedure To Save Your Data
By: Ron Hel-Or

It is accustomed to think of data recovery as something that has to do with restoring information of hard drives, cassettes, internal computer memory etc. Not any people pay attention to the fact that nowadays CD data recovery is a common practice, and can be done in many cases. Your CD in many cases will include valuable information that you can't just forget about, and the restoration of that data is vital. The process is at many times fast and easy, and requires some special software we'll talk about below.

But first, let's look at the possible causes for the data being corrupted on your CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD:

  1. Virus attacks - though anti virus software is now present on almost every computer, some viruses still manage to spread. A few of them may cause damage to the files on your CD.
  2. Lost drive letters - for example, When installing a new storage drive, your CD letter may be changed or lost
  3. Lost partitions - due to magnetic field etc.
  4. Configuration errors - happen in the configuration process, and surface afterwards.
  5. Drive limitations that improperly read the files to the CD.

This makes the recovery of data on a CD often complicated, but rest assured that there is always hope for recovering your lost data.
Let's take a look at two solutions that are on the market today, that can help you solve your CD data recovery challenge:

Bad Copy Pro - This program will automatically rewrite the lost files back to the hard drive .It will recover missing or lost data from documents, images, and even applications you have on your CD. Bad Copy Pro is not expensive and comes with success rate of more than %80. It also does not overwrite the files on the CD, which often can cause problems.
Multi Data Rescue -this program is used by many experts to do their data recovery to their damaged CD's. This program is usable in the Windows interface and is considered to be very user friendly. It can be used to recover files from:

  1. CDs and DVDs
  2. Digital media
  3. Memory cards
  4. USB devices

These two programs are an example for good software that is out there to help you in your hour of need. There are many more solutions, of course, but these two will do to start with. The most important thing is to not give up when you do encounter a CD data recovery scenario. Put technology to the work and you may be surprised at the results you get, for a low price and time investment.



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Saturday, July 12, 2008

A Perfect Solution to Avoid Data Theftt

Drive Wipe: A Perfect Solution to Avoid Data Theftt
by Jerry Tim

One of the most important tasks of computer is storing information in secured way. Information can be in any form such as email messages or simple lists, but can also be as highly important and confidential as internal communications or client information. With computers being used for handling top-secret information, security measures have become an increasing concern.For security point of view we use some advanced option and one of them is physical security. Putting computers that handle important information in a location that is inaccessible or physically guarded greatly reduces the possibility of unauthorized viewers to access your data. However, this security measure may not always be practical and may not also even be possible at times.In this case, you can resort to software-based security measures. Among these include data encryption and password protection. These can protect your information from being accessed by unauthorized viewers. However, security measures, both physical and software-based can only do so much. And there is still a possibility for a hacker to access information that is only protected by a combination of these kinds of security. Simply put, these are not always foolproof means.Moreover, these security options are usually no longer applicable in the case of data erase from a hard disk when you were selling your pc or giving to someone else. You might think that a reformatted hard disk no longer contains useful information. But a hard disk may still contain file data especially if it is not securely wiped.This is due to the fact that deleting ordinary files or reformatting does not automatically get rid of the data stored in files from the hard disk. A marker or tag is only placed on the deleted files that gets rids of them from directory listing and provides available space for later use. Physically, the data is still on the disk unless it is overwritten, and it may not be possible unless the data has been compromised already.Even more secure than reformatting is a process called disk wiping. The term disk wiping is not only used in reference to hard drives but any type of storage devices such as CDs, RAID and others. Drive wiping is a secure method of ensuring that data by the use of drive wipe softwares because previously stored data can be brought back with the right software and applications, hard drive wipe process will actually overwrite your entire hard drive with data, several times. Once you format you'll find it all but impossible to retrieve the data which was on the drive before overwriting. Stellar a leading data recovery company introduces Stellar Drive Wipe software which is more secure and a complete data wiping solution that erases hard drive data permanently. This is powerful software that erases the selected hard drive. This software is compatible with all versions of Windows operating system including Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista It is the complete and best solutions to keep your private information secure from any external user. It provides wipe solutions that can stop both hardware and software recovery tools from retrieving the wiped data.





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One of the most important tasks of computer is storing information in secured way. Information can be in any form such as email messages or simple lists, but can also be as highly important and confidential as internal communications or client information. With computers being used for handling top-secret information, security measures have become an increasing concern.For security point of view we use some advanced option and one of them is physical security

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Data Recovery: Offering You the Second Possibility

by Jerry Tim

Data Recovery is the process of retrieving the lost, missing or inaccessible data and information from your affected hard drive. Often the data and information are being recovered from storage media like hard drives, CDs, DVDs, storage tapes, RAID and many alike.

Discovering your resolution

There are two fundamental directions you could go to get your data recovered: using data recovery software or a specialized data recovery service. Data recovery software are more inexpensive than a data recovery service, but they are not applicable in all cases of data loss. You should always go for a data recovery solution which suits the situation best.

Data Recovery Software versus Data Recovery Service

Almost all of the computer users, who are facing data loss, want to use hard drive data recovery software as these are cheaper, faster and private. But these tools are applicable only in cases of logical data loss such as accidental deletion, virus attack, file system corruption and so forth.

When you attempt data recovery using the data recovery software on the physically damaged hard drive, it will make the situations worst. Though, these data recovery software could recover more data, but if used in improper situations, they could also destroy your valuable data.

In case of physical data loss, taking assistance from the data recovery service provider company would be the best deal. Now, if you donĂ¢€™t want to make any delay in getting your data recovered, you should fetch your hard drive to the data recovery professionals because the physical data loss requires extra care.

The data recovery experts first analyze the hard drive completely to know about the kind of damaged happened to the same. After it, they decide what action should be taken. The hard drive recovery service is performed in the clean surroundings of Clean Rooms using the advanced data recovery tools.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd is the leading data recovery company having 15 years of rich experience in offering data recovery solutions to its customers throughout the globe. The company provides both data recovery software and data recovery service solutions.

StellarĂ¢€™s data recovery software are available for all computer operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux and Novell. These hard drive recovery software are extremely easy to use having intuitive user interface and rich graphical support.

Data recovery service of the company is the best of data recovery industry. It is provided in State Of The Art Class 100 Clean Rooms by the highly qualified and knowledgeable data recovery experts. Tools and techniques used for performing absolute data recovery are very advanced and superior.




About the Author

Jerry Tim a student of Mass Communication doing research on hard disk recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Data Recovery-When and Why?

by Simpson

Data Recovery is a phenomenon of restoration of the inaccessible data, lost in one or the other way. The data recovery can be performed from all the storage devices counting hard drives, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, memory cards and so forth.


Data loss is an unexpected and undesirable incident. Most of the computer users are losing their precious data in case of the hard drive crash. However the other reasons may be like user errors, installed program's malfunctions, operating system vulnerabilities, virus attacks and so on. As compared to the desktops, the laptop's parts are more brittle, being used more carelessly.


For the companies, the data recovery options hold importance. The prime reasons for the same could be to save the business and to maintain the continuity of the business operations. Data loss creates the unimaginably worst condition for an individual or organization.


Data recovery is the remedy for all such complications but it would be better if all the data has been backed up beforehand. This would save the spending on the data recovery solutions and of course the time. You will confess the fact that any prevention is far better than the medicine. But what to do if you were ignoring this fact and now are standing under the dark shadow of data loss. Yes to deploy the data recovery solutions.


Data recovery software and the data recovery services are the two way to it, applicable according to the cause of data loss. Data recovery software only scans the affected storage media and can't take any action if some physical mishaps have rendered the data loss. For the physical mishappening, the data recovery service is the cure under which the media is analyzed manually.


Data recovery software are usable by the user itself, without the assistance of the data recovery experts. On the contrary, the data recovery service is the job to be handled by the professional of this era and is not the controlled task by the user. So be specific as why to spend money when the data recovery can be done while confronting the system yourself.


The free or low cost data recovery claiming utilities may pamper you. But when this is the question of the key term of your organization, data, the quality of the data recovery solutions can't be sacrificed.


Stellar Information Systems Limited, the brand name counted when the data recovery is in demand, offers you the most comprehensive and standout solutions. These solutions have the power to combat each complication of data loss.


Data recovery software for Windows, Linux, Novell, UNIX and Macintosh operating systems make use of the systematic scanning algorithms for this job, having the power to retrieve the data intact. The user interfaces are interactive and don't require any technical skills of the user.


Data recovery through Stellar also maintains a fabulous track record for all kind of damage. Class 100 Clean Rooms facility and the availabilit of the expert and skilled data recovery associates is the key term for the success in each physical data loss incident.


About the Author

Simpson is a freelancer for Stellar which offers data recovery software and file recovery programs for different OS and file system.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Hard Drive Recovery: Mystery of Myths

by Shally Spears

The data recovery industry is developing since the first hard drive crash took place and most of the established practices and recovery techniques are in use till. During this long period of time, the users must have heard some of misguided advices about data recovery from the storage media. The plunge of saving the money makes the users hear and deploy some of the misguided practices like heat it, freeze it, drop it, tap it, exchange the board, open it, spin it, use a higher voltage etc. and it will fix itself.


So we are here to clear all your doubts and explore all the threats to the data due to these practices. Tapping or dropping the storage media are probably the worst ideas to get the data back. The damage may get accelerated and may get a little kick.


The posers like when the hard drive platters are not spinning up have an issue with read/write head. This is somewhat related to the static nature of the head due to friction. Actually the read/write heads have adhered to the platters of the hard drive and the motor doesn't possess the required torque to get its started. Most of the modern hard drives are devoid of this reason. But whenever the hard drive faces this problem it is needed to be sent to the data recovery company for the correct procedure to be worked upon.


Applying the heating or the freezing method is one of the other disastrous misconceptions prevailing among the users. The notion behind this procedure of hard drive recovery is performing the contraction and expansion of the hard drive components which will loosen the head from the media and the hard drive would be able to spin. But the other impacts are simply hazardous and impose friction to the hard disk recovery. Excessive heat and freezing may destroy the hard drive components by heat and moisture respectively. These procedures work once in a while and not for all. Again for the perfect hard drive recovery , assistance of the data recovery experts would do.


The circuit board is frying, this reason also constitutes for the hard drive malfunction. Several secondary problems are also attached with this scenario. So the board swap would not do a good deal to recover the data. If other components like motor, head assembly driver or heads have been hooked up, the replacement of the board is surely the bad idea.


Similarly using the high voltage is the bad term for the data as this may further burn something and thus the chances for hard disk recovery.


So which is the best way to deal with the failed hard drive? Well it would be leave the hard drive in it's as it is state without performing any practice over it. Just turn off the system and consult the best data recovery service of the industry. Either of the practice at your place can harm the data harshly. So overcome of the misconceptions and myths and follow up the right way to deal.


Stellar Information Systems Limited offers you the best data recovery services fr all the storage media including the hard drive. The brand of the hard drive doesn't matter for the hard disk recovery services from Stellar. Class 100 Clean Room facility, skill and expertise of the data recovery associates and the well built tools for the data recovery allows you to have the maximum possible data recovery in all circumstances of damage.





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Shally Spears is a freelancer for Stellar which offers data recovery software and file recovery programs for different OS and file system.

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