The hard disk drive in your computer is the place where the data is stored, and the data is at its most current. So, if it fails and there is not a current backup then it can be a very serious problem requiring specialist hard drive recovery services.

Altirium recommend that you consult tape manufacturers and read the information supplied with your tapes with regard to the safe storage and transportation of tape cartridges.

Celebrity's-bank-details-found-on-computer type stories crop up every so often, and with them a renewed debate about data erasure and whether data can ever be completely eradicated from a hard drive.

Whether it is your own banking details, or a sensitive client database, you don’t want data getting into the wrong hands.

Tape Data Recovery is a broad subject and actually relates to more than just tapes suffering from damage or wear and tear. There are the perennial, publicity friendly, tales of apocalypse (fire and flood damage) that make great reading but are relevant to very few of us. The majority of Tape Data Recovery work is required as the result of drive failure, media failure or human failure and these tend to happen during the normal course of events - and without a horseman in sight.