DriveSavers, Inc. is a computer hardware
data recovery
In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. The da ...
company located in
Novato, California
Novato (Spanish for "Novatus") is a city in Marin County, California, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area. At the 2020 census, Novato had a population of 53,225.
History
What is now Novato was originally the site of several Coast Miwok ...
.
It was founded by former CEO Jay Hagan and former company President Scott Gaidano in 1985.
History
In 1985, former Jasmine Technologies executives Jay Hagan and Scott Gaidano founded DriveSavers, operating from Gaidano’s condo with $1,400.hard drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnet ...
repair and data recovery services, but the company dropped its drive repair services within its first eight months.ISO
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-certified cleanrooms to disassemble and rebuild damaged hard drives.hard disk drives
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, solid state drives
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, smart phones
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, servers, digital camera media and iOS
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devices.floppy disks
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of the deceased Star Trek
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creator Gene Roddenberry
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, potentially containing lost episodes of the franchise.
DriveSavers is certified HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy– Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1 ...
-compliant, undergoes annual SOC2 Type II reviews and has encryption training certificates from GuardianEdge, PGP
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, PointSec and Utimaco.
Security certifications and practices
DriveSavers facility is made up of cleanrooms. The cleanrooms come in different ratings depending on the application and range from federal standards of 100,000 to 100. The rating is a measure of the number of 0.1-micron-sized airborne particulates per square meter.
DriveSavers employees have to go through background checks
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, because of contracts with state, and federal government agencies. The company also has to meet data-security standards that its clients do, like HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA or the Kennedy– Kassebaum Act) is a United States Act of Congress enacted by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1 ...
certification to work with hospitals and GLBA certification to work with financial institutions.
Awards
* Storage Visions, Visionary Company Award, 2014
* Flash Memory Summit, Most Innovative Flash Memory Consumer Application Award, 2018
* Better Business Bureau, A+ rating
See also
*List of data recovery companies
In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. The da ...
References
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External links
Official site
Computer forensics
Data recovery companies
American companies established in 1985
Novato, California
Companies based in Marin County, California