According to the recent news, a hard drive containing information related to loss of hard drive containing information about names and social security numbers. An employee of Pfizer inadvertently left an important hard drive containing backup data in a trash box at his home. The company claims that hard drive was burnt, as it was a part of the trash.
Data recovery of hard drives is an important part of any business and home anymore. The amount and the value of data on a computer is astronomical, and data recovery of hard drives is one of the major concerns of most businesses. It is estimated that $2-$3 billion each year is lost due to data that couldn't be recovered
Data breach is a major problem that is faced by several business organizations. Many of the data loss incidents were due to data breach
Iomega has introduced the USB 2.0 eGo which has several advantages over its predecessor. The portable hard drive can now contain more data providing maximum protection for the data. As the drive is portable, the need for advanced security mechanism to protect data is high
The modern day laptops require more robust hard drives with increased capacity. Hitachi has announced a new hard drive called Travelstar specifically for laptop users. The hard drive has excellent performance and provides lots of power savings
News related to security breaches are reaching us frequently ever since memory storage devices became mobile. Recently, an external hard drive containing personal information about White House staff and visitors was found missing from the US national archives.
According to Murphy's Law of Data Loss, “The probabilities of a hard-disk crash increase with the number of days since the drive was last backed up.” No hard disk drive is ever completely safe from crashing, and losing all the important data on it. A disk drive can be damaged due to a number of causes such as virus attack, voltage glitches, software malfunction, hard disk format, accidental file/directory deletion, human error or even sabotage.
A health trust in UK lost information about 6,360 patients who were prisoners and ex-prisoners. The data was stored in a USB stick and it was used to back up clinical data based