By Ben Robinson, 2/13/10

DriveSavers (a leader in data recovery services), has added solid-state drive (SSD) failures to its popular iPhone application, DriveSaver – not literally, of course! The free iPhone application is a hard drive simulator that educates users about hard drive data storage technology. DriveSaver is apparently fun, educational and useful to anyone who ever wanted to see inside a SSD or any hard drive and learn why drives fail.

The most utilized feature of the iPhone application is “Crash a Hard Drive,” a simulation of real-world drive failures that users experience daily. For the first time, the updated virtual environment simulates a SSD crash, allowing users to learn how these devices can fail. The application also simulates various types of other drive failures including watching a head crash score the platters and thus turning the data into dust!

DriveSaver is currently available as a free download on iTunes and in the Utilities and Productivity categories of the iPhone App Store. The new version is awaiting Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) approval and should be available within the week. To immediately view the new Flash-based version of DriveSaver that includes the solid-state drive simulation, go here.

To learn more about DriveSavers and the DriveSaver application, you can go here.

Read the original article at IntoMobile.