Photo: Seagate Originally published by USA Today. By Rob Pegaro When it’s time to donate or ditch an old flash-memory drive that stored sensitive information, deleting those files isn’t enough. The safest way to wipe the slate clean is actually to encrypt it — and that’s not as hard as…
Published in The Marin Independent Journal. Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Helpful Expertise from Owners of Local Top Rated Companies By James Florence, Diamond Certified Resource Reporter NOVATO — When asked how he got into the computer service industry, Mike Cobb says it all began with a high school job working for…
Photo:Intel Originally published by USA Today. Reminder: Your data can survive on a dead hard drive. A hard drive crash is unnerving enough by itself — the tiny bundle of electronics that warehoused your data for years suddenly stops working, often with no warning. But when that drive is a…
Originally published by TechTarget. After fully testing the new environment, enact a fresh backup strategy, advised Mike Cobb, director of engineering for data recovery service DriveSavers. “Be sure to not overwrite the previous backup before the transition and to use new media in case you need to move back to…
Mike Cobb tells his personal story of the Sonoma/Napa wildfires. Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering, uses personal tragedy to help explain why we should all be protecting our business and personal information from potential loss, and how to do just that. Listen to Mike’s Story in His Own Words…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Updated March 1, 2018 Spring is here and it’s time to add technology to your list of seasonal cleaning chores. Here’s your Tech Spring Cleaning list. Back Up We always recommend triple redundancy, meaning that the same important data is located in three places—one…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Capacity Versus Performance Rapid advances in technology have catapulted the amount of data that can be stored by single devices to higher and higher levels. Hard disk drives (HDDs) lead the game against solid state drives (SSDs) when it comes to storage capacity; however,…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Meet Ron Cen Ron begins each workday by stepping across flooring topped with sticky material that collects contaminants from the bottom of his shoes on his way into a small changing room. After closing the door behind him, Ron suits up in a special…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering All drives fail. Even in the cloud. In a cloud-based data storage business, there is no actual magic cloud. Storage drives are housed in data centers where technicians maintain and protect copies of important customer information for a fee. For the past four years,…
Helpful Expertise from Local Top Rated Companies Mike Cobb: Digging for Data By James Florence, Diamond Certified Reporter When asked how he got into the computer service industry, Mike Cobb says it all began with a high school job working for his father. “My dad ran a driving school when…
