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Memofix at iTech 2013 Toronto

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

We love talking about IT with our customers, particularly if it involves storage technology. We are a company of geeks who are always willing to share our technical expertise on hard disks, tape drives and data recovery with clients and business partners. And now we’re being allowed out in public.

Memofix will be at iTech 2013, at the Toronto International Centre, on Thursday, May 16th. For the past decade iTech has become known as Canada’s IT Infrastructure Conference and allows technology professionals to speak one-on-one with industry vendors, all in one place. The seminar sessions deliver information on the latest trends, cutting edge products and services and help them research solutions for their IT strategy. More information on the show can be found here: iTech 2013 Toronto


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We are excited to be at the show because it gives us an opportunity to meet with many of our past clients and discuss the challenges they have in the area of storage. More importantly we love meeting new customers who get to find out what we are all about. We think a face-to-face conversation allows us to convey our love for all things storage and build a trust factor based on our expertise and the fact that we love to help solve problems.

At the conference we will be focusing on 3 important services that generate the most interest from our customers.

Data Recovery: A malfunctioning storage device can be a minor nuisance or severely disrupt your business operations. Unfortunately the failure of hard drives, RAID arrays, and other data storage technologies is a fact of life. Find out how Memofix can serve as your emergency support partner and how we retrieve or recover data from all types of data storage media. Businesses of all sizes across Canada put their trust in Memofix Data Recovery Services to recover data from hard disks, tape cartridges flash media of all categories and NAS, SAN, and multi-disk servers.

Tape and Hard Disk Repair: All the industry experts will tell you, “Tape is dead”. For companies that continue to use tape as their backup or archive strategy it is getting harder to find a support vendor and there are few service organizations in North America that specialize in tape drive repair. Memofix, with 25 years of experience, is among that select group and we provide direct support for some of the largest manufacturers of tape storage technologies. Our tape and hard disk repair services allow companies to extend their IT budgets by keeping existing devices running and avoiding an early replacement. We also offer extended warranties for tape storage devices that are very cost competitive with OEM alternatives.

Cloud Backup: The future of backup is not cloudy (sorry, bad pun). As companies cope with ever increasing amounts of information they realize that it’s critical to have a dependable backup solution that can scale with their business needs. Come by our iTech booth and find out how our Cloud Backup solution can prioritize files for backup and securely transmit an encrypted copy to an offsite Canadian-based data centers. The Memofix Cloud Backup service can save you money, simplify your IT operations and give you an increased sense of security about your data.

Since 1986 Memofix has been a Canadian market leader specializing in the repair of storage devices, data recovery solutions and partnering with manufacturers as their warranty depot. Our company takes pride in the professionalism of and experience of our technicians and our process of continual improvement. Come by our booth at the iTech conference and find out why we are quality obsessed and customer focused.

Need a Data Recovery Expert?

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Please allow me to introduce you to MemofixMan, the creation of our own Rob Armstrong. Not only is Rob a talented artist, he also has an incredible flare for recovering data. Rob can be found most days recovering data in the Memofix data recovery lab. We hope you enjoy his drawings and we hope to publish more of his creations soon.

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Helium Hard Drives?

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Better not leave your hard drive just lying around, or it may just float away. Or at least that may be the case after 2013, when at least one hard drive manufacture, Hitachi Global Storage (now owned by Western Digital) has plans to start filling hard drives with helium.

http://www.hgst.com/press-room/2012/hgst-announces-radically-new-helium-filled-hard-disk-drive-platform

We all know helium as that “lighter than air” gas that has been used to fill and float party balloons for years. But due to it’s lighter then air composition, operating in a helium environment also allows mechanical devices like motors, to spin with less effort, produce less air turbulence, and to operate with less heat and noise. Hard drive manufactures have known of these advantages for years but the problem was keeping the helium from escaping the sealed internal chamber of a hard disk drive. Now that a solution has been found, it will be possible to install more disks on the same motor by spacing them even closer together. Presently, 5 disks can be used in a normal air filled hard drive. Using a sealed helium environment will allow 7 disks for a maximum capacity of 5.6 TB in a single hard drive! WOW!

Helium is harvested as a bi-product of natural gas production and Texas has some of the highest concentrations in the world but the demand continues to outstrip supply. Helium is mainly used in the medical industry to cool MRI machines, and in cryogenics, arc welding and wafer fabrication. It is still unclear how the hard drive industries requirements could effect this shortage but it will no doubt help drive up the cost of hard drives should it become common place.

As for data recovery, it could be a tough barrier to overcome. Assuming that the process used to seal in the helium is a one time affair it may not be possible to reload the hard drive with helium. Consequently we may not be able to replace damaged heads or open the sealed disk chamber in any way … or perhaps we will need to operate in a helium filled clean room .. I can hear the recovery techs speaking in high pitched chipmunk-like voices now … :-) .. is that you Alvin?