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Charlotte, NC (April 10, 2019) – Carolina Data Recovery, a leading provider of Data Recovery Services, today announces that they are opening a new Charlotte Uptown location in order to better serve Charlotte’s downtown business community. Carolina Data Recovery is...

The early years of the 21st century was a technological boom. The world, having survived the rumored technological meltdown of Y2K, developed better, faster, smarter personal computers, music devices, and the almighty smart phone. Amongst this distinguished group of...

Data loss has never been a more serious issue than it is today, and because of that there has never been more people looking for data recovery solutions. But what if the loss was preventable? Thankfully, there are many ways a person can prevent data loss in their...

To many people the Cloud (as discussed here) is something many people don’t understand and aren’t fully utilizing. Certain systems and apps are backed-up to the cloud, like an iPhone backed-up in the iCloud, it is used as temporary storage or a shared storage system...

RAID 5 systems are not infallible and should be monitored at all times. Immediately upon the failure of any drive in the system, a notification via email, text, etc. should be generated and sent to the responsible party for drive replacement.  Always replace a problem...

When Your Hard Drive Fails Do not panic!!!  Power down your system, take a deep breath and think about what just happened. Carefully consider the following before taking any other action.  Now that you have caught your breath and calmed down we will guide you through...

All hard drive data access problems can be classified into 3 distinct areas;  HEALTHY DRIVES 1.Data level issues...any meta data corruption within boot sector, catalogue, master file table, etc. and/or logical corruption of file system structure such as accidental...

Being in the data recovery business, many of our clients often ask us "What hard drive should I buy?" That is not an easy question to answer without some additional research and data. In a previous post entitled “Looking To Replace Your Hard Drive” I discuss six key...

When it comes to saving business files, important documents, or personal data like audio and photos on our storage devices, we seldom ever worry about losing them or really even stop to think about how much longer our hard drive will be kicking for that matter. We...

NAS systems are defined as Network Attached Storage devices and are increasingly popular arrangements that provide a central storage point—almost like a private cloud—where small businesses can backup critical files and data. Comprised of an external storage device...

When the time comes to replace your hard drive, don't make that decision without considering a few key points. It would be a waste of money to pick a hard drive that isn't suited to your needs. Here are 6 things to consider before you buy a hard drive: Drive Type -...

We live in a world that's heavily reliant on data. Without it, business as we know it grinds to a halt. The downside to all this technology is that there are so many things that can go wrong and numerous ways to lose all that information. And yet, a surprising number...