In the recent past, optical media has embraced the use of CD’s and DVD’s as a means of storing data. CD’s or DVD’s are optical media developed to store information for an unspecified period of time but keep data safe so it can be readable in the future. CD and DVD burners have advanced by leaps and bounds from their original classification. There were times not twenty years ago where burning a CD was not possible above 1x speed, requiring about forty-five minutes to be expended to create a single disc. Speed has increased to the point where burners now get up to 52x in speed, allowing a CD or DVD to be burned in mere minutes. The downside of …

Recover Corrupted Flash Drive. Cloud storage is a huge option today. But what if you need to recover corrupted flash drive data? Flash drives continue to play a vital role in day-to-day business. In addition, these are cost-effective and convenient to store & carry.  Furthermore, many come with varying capacities. Flash drives are useful to have around the office. There are various types of USB flash drives available on the market. In short, we use USB sticks and SD memory cards within digital cameras and tablets. Flash drive files corrupted? We can recover a corrupted USB drive, as well as physically broken USB sticks. Let’s discuss what methods and best practices can be applied. How to Recover Files from Corrupted …

Data recovery is a hard task to perform for the avg. Joe. Recover USB flash drives after internal failure is equally difficult. It is not everybody’s cup of tea. Therefore, you ought to train yourself. Likewise, learn a couple data recovery procedures before you recover data from a hard drive or USB flash drive. Before understanding the process of recovery of useful data from USB flash drives, it’s important to know the reason for data loss. Equally important are the reasons for losing the data from a USB flash drive. Hardware Failures on Your USB Flash Drive. Recovery Is Common. Uniquely, hardware or software malfunctions are most common. Other common problems are accidental deletion of files or directories. Accidental formats, …

Summer And Winter can be a time of fun and spending time with family and friends, however, both seasons can also be hazardous to the health of your SD and Digital Media cards unless you exercise good care habits. It is no fun to lose those wonderful shots that you worked so hard to get, yet it happens to someone, somewhere, just about every day. Here are some tips on how to avoid digital camera data loss and what to do should it happen to you. The top five reasons for losing your data are as follows. Summer Humidity Water and Sun. This summer, the number one cause of loss of data in your SD card, MicroSD, smartphone, camera card …

For many, NAND flash memory is a better storage device—especially in low-capacity application (4 GBs or less). NAND is a no-brainer for folks seeking a lower power, lighter, and more robust storage device. Although these devices have marked advantages, they can easily become corrupt due to external environmental components, as one of our clients recently found out at a most inopportune time.  (For digital image recovery information, click here.) Thankfully, they wasted no time in enlisting our recovery services. Here’s what they had to say. Saving Precious Memories. A Firsthand Account from a Data Recovery Client. During my incredible, amazing, and absolutely PERFECT honeymoon in Costa Rica last December, my husband and I were spending our last day in heaven-on-earth …

For the everyday user, additional monolithic storage drives amounts to an aisle in their favorite electronic store. They stroll down the aisle, pick the drive that—according to the packaging—meets their needs, buy it, and simply plug and play. But if that aisle had a hood like a car, and you lifted it, you would see a complex world filled with unrivaled diversity. And that is what makes data recovery such a unique business. The Diversity Of Electronic Storage. Within the casing of some USB sticks, all MicroSD types, and some regular SD cards you can find surface mount (SMT) NAND wafers. Other flash storage drives can have NAND wafers that have legs on each side. These legs act as the …

Monolith Storage in USB Flash Drive Production. Monolithic storage is made up of numerous electronic components. Their respective connections are all integrated into a single-layered semiconductor wafer or package. This package splits into 3D integrated circuits. Monolith storage architectures have evolved to become a popular choice for manufacturers. Thus, they’re cheaper to produce compared to standard NAND and Controller based devices. Monolithic storage is a significant breakthrough in memory storage devices. And, the breakthrough is across SD cards, USB flash drives, and microSDs. However, it is viewed as something of a bigger challenge to recover data from a monolithic storage device. Consequently, they often suffer from damage and files become corrupted. Furthermore, when this occurs you’ll need micro SD card …

NAND technology has had a huge impact on many of the gadget-based luxuries we enjoy today. By creating breakthroughs in storage methods, NAND flash has revolutionized our phones and our digital cameras; maximizing the amount of space we have available to store a range of media. There have been various types of NAND technology over the years, allowing us to reach the point we’re at today (and it will only keep improving – just imagine the amount of pictures, videos, and more you’ll be able to store on your phones and tablets five years from now). The first, SLC (Single Level Cell) was designed to store one data bit in each cell; this graduated to MLC (Multi-Level Cell) technology, which …

  Time will tell. The hype over the future of NAND technology, worth the fuss? NAND is non-volatile memory we use in today’s cameras and other flash media devices. It’s also used in a fast-growing number of computers as a hard drive. What’s the meaning of non-volatile? It means the device will perform memory retention inside the NAND flash card even when the power is off. Power failures or logical corruption can lead to the need for flash memory recovery solutions. NAND memory technology is getting smaller and smaller. Its capacity to hold memory and its long life have given this technology a boost. We use this technology in two ways. There is SLC and MLC flash. Both are initials …

eProvided insight into a data recovery professional. Today our daily lives are filled with cutting edge technology. Interestingly enough, this technology does not always work. Career opportunities in the technology field are expanding on a daily basis. Data recovery professionals are finding their skills useful in many different areas. One thing is for sure, they never have a dull day at the lab. A Look Inside: A Day in the Life of Data Recovery Professionals. The data recovery experts at eProvided generally never know what each day will bring. At any moment, there could be a student or officer of the peace with sudden data loss where attention to detail becomes more crucial than ever, and recovering the data is …

NAND memory is a specific type of flash memory defined as “non-volatile storage technology.” Unlike many other types of memory, it doesn’t require active power to retain and store data. According to Wikipedia, non-volatile storage technology includes read-only and NAND flash memory. NAND, created as a solution to reduced costs and chip capacity. Allowing flash memory to compete with magnetic storage such as hard disks. Since its introduction, NAND, used in devices to hold large files at faster speeds. Its use increases file transfer speeds and bandwidth. Some of your favorite devices use NAND flash, including USB drives, external USB drives, MP3 players, cell phones, MicroSD and digital cameras. NAND flash has no moving parts. Therefore, NAND flash runs on …

External hard drives are fantastic for storing large amounts of data locally, without uploading it to the cloud or overloading your computer’s internal drive. However, as reliable and sturdy as most USB drives & portable hard drives are, mishaps and malfunctions leading to data loss happen. This can be annoying at best, devastating at worst: if you have weeks and weeks’ (or years and years’) worth of data stored in your external hard drive when it fails, then you can feel absolutely destroyed. This can be caused by accidental deletion, infection from viruses, corrupted data, or various other technical and mechanical issues. Can you get data back? Can you recover all those lost files? Possibly – each situation is different. …

We have a tendency to break and damage our belongings. In the case of thumb drives and flash drives, we have a habit of saving all our images and data onto them. We truly save everything these days. As thumb drives become less costly and store huge amounts of data, we forget the consequences of damage. Recovering lost data from our flash drives is no laughing matter. So what tends to go wrong with a flash drive? Recovering Thumb Drive Photos & Data for the Faint at Heart In this story, we will go in exact order of the most recent cases that have come into eProvided. We will discuss only those cases that relate to lost files or damaged …