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There are a number of reasons that a hard drive may start clicking – none of them are good signs. However, some clicking hard drives are worse than others.  Service Area CorruptionThe Service Area of a hard drive is much like an OS for a computer. If there is damage in the Service Area your…

Data breaches can cost companies up to $7per incident in the U.S., according to recent statistics. With the new Heartbleed Bug roaming the Internet (so to speak), individuals and businesses could be at greater risk than ever before. A flaw exists in a popular encryption service that is designed to protect users’ sensitive data as…

Using an inexpensive, easy to use external hard disk drive is one of the best ways to back up your data. Although it’s best to have three forms of data back-up, the best back-up system is the one you use consistently. Of course, an external hard drive stored in the same place as your computer…

Every day, 24 Hour Data helps customers facing a data recovery emergency. In fact, our recovery success rate for extracting mission critical files in less than 48 hours is the best in the business. But it’s important to understand that a percentage of businesses invest in this service because long-term data loss would cost exponentially…

Hard drives fail. At 24 Hour Data, we know this better than anyone. On the pages of this blog, we frequently talk about physical and logical hard drive failure. Logical failure typically involves corruption of files or accidentally deleted data. Physical failure means damage to the hard disk drive itself. Drives may fail to varying…

At 24 Hour Data, we know that small businesses and large organizations, alike, use databases for nearly every aspect of operations, from customer relationship management to sales and marketing and more. So when your database fails, you risk losing mission critical data that can cost your company important business… or even cost your entire business.…

Do you know the number one reason for data loss in cloud storage environments? You might be surprised. It’s not a data breach or attack directed at the service provider. It’s not a  natural disaster. It’s simple human error. According to the Aberdeen Group’s report, “SaaS Data Loss: The Problem You Didn’t Know You Had,”…

As the amount of mission critical data required by small businesses grows, data loss becomes inevitable. Let’s take a look at some significant 2013 statistics on data loss, researched by a number of reputable organizations and reported by data backup service provider Essentialink. https://essentialink.com/business-continuity-statistics-industry-trends-… Data Loss StatisticsA Gartner survey said that 25% of PCs will fail…

Restoring a failed RAID array often requires expert help from a professional data recovery service. It’s important to remember that one when hard drive in a RAID array fails, it puts added strain on the other drives in the array and can lead to cascading RAID failure and catastrophic data loss. However, many levels of…

If hard disk drives never died, there’d be very little reason for emergency data recovery.  Of course, there will always be user error, accidental deletion, natural disasters and file corruption caused by viruses and malware. But the second leading cause of data loss, failed hard disk drives, wouldn’t matter. However, even with new SSL and…