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The man who in 2013 threw away computer hard drive with 7500 Bitcoin is still trying to find it

11 Dec 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Kovichni

First things first, this news report came out in 2013 and as time progressed you'll notice that the value keeps increasing drastically while his Bitcoin is not earning interest or being traded, no it's literally "trash" as some insist on calling it,...

The world is one Hard Drive lesser- Would you like to add this to your kitty?

22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Suny Ag

James Howells, an IT worker living in the UK, is looking for a hard drive that could make him a millionaire. James accidentally threw his hard drive in the trash 8 years ago, that's. in 2013, a hard drive with a data saved of 7500 bitcoins. Now that...

How to securely and safely fix your external Hard Drive in just 20 steps...

6 Apr 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Nephatiu

Everybody knows that dreaded moment a hard drive suddenly fails, leaving you stranded with no more access to all your stored data that you put there for safe-keeping in the first place. Those days are over, as I will teach you the secret art of fixin...

Cloud vs physical storage

14 Jan 2020 3 minute read 0 comments HermesSyndicate

Should you use cloud or physical data storage for your needs? You might have realised that your photo collection, music collection, or movie collection is getting quite large. So depending on what type of data you want to store you need to make a dec...

Finding Bitcoins on old Hard drives

8 Jan 2020 1 minute read 13 comments HermesSyndicate

Being in the IT world, computer repair and data recovery business for quite a while, I did get encounters with people who asked me if I ever found old Bitcoins on old hard drives forgotten since they were worthless. Even three lost and found bitcoins...

Hard Drives reliability and which brand to choose

8 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments HermesSyndicate

We get a lot of questions from our customers regarding which hard drive to choose. In our experience the most reliable hard drives are also the easiest to work with from the point of view of data recovery. There was a time when Seagate hard drives we...

Storj - get paid to "mine" with your free disk space.

28 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments DimitarM

Storj is an old project from which I was part of until about 13-14 months ago, when it seemed completely dead. But now they seem to be reinventing themselves.  You guys can make a buck or two with it, the best part there is no real "mining" involved,...

Hard Drive Rescued

17 Mar 2019 1 minute read 1 comment primo

A couple days ago my wife's laptop fell off of our bed and the monitor broke and would no longer turn on. It would have cost more to fix than it would have to just replace the laptop, but my wife didn't want to lose the information on her hard drive,...