Does Hard Disk erasure work?

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

Data being lost stories crop up with too great a frequency, and with them a renewed debate about data security, data erasure and whether data can ever be completely eradicated from a hard drive.

Whatever the data you do not want it falling into the wrong hands, and just keeping it away HM Revenue and Customs or the MOD is no guarantee of its safety.
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RAID data recovery leaps forward

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

Failure of a RAID system can seem like the end of the world for the stressed out people trying to find out what is wrong whilst fending off the attentions of the accounts department, members of the board of directors and probably people from every department who have data stored on the RAID and want to access is “now - thank you very much”.

Traditionally RAID data recovery has been a protracted process because of the greater complexity and the lack of flexibility in those recovery tools that are publicly available. A faster service could sometimes be achieved only by increasing risk by not securing data before starting work.

Now this has changed with Altirium’s latest RAID recovery software the process can be completed within a few hours.
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