A recent report points out significant privacy issues with electronic storage devices that could include removable drives, tablets, cameras and other devices. The study, which was conducted by Laplink and O&O Software out of Germany tested 160 randomly purchased used hard drives and other storage devices. Using un-erase software, researchers were able to get data…
Hard drives are most vulnerable to physical damage when they are powered on and spinning. To help avoid experiencing a premature hard drive failure in your backup media, please use the following procedures when you’re swapping your media: If using High Rely Classic media: Turn key off, wait 15 seconds, then remove media. If using…
Removable Disk Backup Slow? Here are common reasons for slow removable disk backup in a bullet list. Scroll down or click to page jump to detailed explanations and suggestions. You Forgot to turn off Your Anti-virus software during backup. Your drive(s) are getting full, starting to use the inner cylinders. You are using small hard drives.…
NAS (Network Attached Storage) and DAS (Direct Attached Storage) removable backup devices can have different speeds depending on the data rate of the interface as well as the speed of the device and hard drives being used. The speeds below are backup to a single 2TB or 3TB type SATA drive. FirstRAID and RAIDFrame backup devices can…
One of the most common problems we hear is that a full backup takes longer than one night to complete (The slow backup problem). Here at Highly Reliable Systems, we’ve tested a variety of backup software and have found that imaging based products (as opposed to file based) provide the best backup performance. A product…