forensics ediscovery founded 1985 founder jay hagan scott gaidano headquarters novato california key people jay hagan ceo scott moyer president website www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com drivesavers inc. is a computer hardware data recovery digital forensics and ediscovery firm located in novato california . 1 2 it was founded by ceo jay hagan and former company president scott gaidano in 1985 . 3 4 5 contents 1 history 2 services 3 awards 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1985 former jasmine technologies executives jay hagan and scott gaidano founded drivesavers operating from gaidano s condo with 1 400 . 4 3 4 5 6 drivesavers originally offered both hard drive repair and data recovery services but the company dropped its drive repair services within its first eight months . 5 in 1992 drivesavers signed an agreement with supermac technology to assume technical support and warranty obligations for supermac mass storage products . 7 the company merged with data recovery disk repair in 1994 and retained the drivesavers name . 4 in 2008 drivesavers invested two million dollars to build a series of five iso certified cleanrooms to diassemble and rebuild damaged hard drives . 8 1 4 6 from 2004 2009 the company grew from 35 to 85 employees . 9 services edit drivesavers is a top of the range data recovery service . citation needed on average it can recover 90 percent of the files from a non functioning storage device . 9 recovering data from an iphone can cost between 500 to 1 400 . 10 it has a positive and well respected reputation . citation needed 70 percent of its clients are corporations . it also works with the more secretive branches of government and celebrities . 3 9 drivesavers is the only recovery firm licensed with every major hard drive manufacturer so their work on a drive does not void the warranty . 3 it can recover data from hard disk drives solid state drives smart phones servers digital camera media and ios devices . 8 2 11 12 13 drivesavers is certified hipaa compliant undergoes annual soc2 type ii reviews and has encryption training certificates from guardianedge pgp pointsec and utimaco . 1 14 awards edit diamond certified 2013 16 15 references edit a b c alex wawro june 5 2013 . smash smartphone . throw it in the ocean . hope drivesavers doesn t get it . . pc world . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b mat honan august 17 2012 . mat honan how i resurrected my digital life after an epic hacking . wired . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b c d chris taylor june 3 2003 . fried your drive . time . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b c d e tony c. yang august 31 2008 . saving the day by saving data . san francisco business journal . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b c christine kilpatrick april 9 2000 . cyber saviors . san francisco business journal . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b rik myslewski august 29 2008 . profile drivesavers stays true to data recovery roots . macworld . retrieved september 16 2013 . mark h. anbinder september 14 1992 . supermac & drivesavers . tidbits . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b neil j. rubenking march 10 2010 . inside the drivesavers clean rooms . pc magazine . retrieved september 16 2013 . a b c chris taylor october 26 2009 . the tech catastrophe you re ignoring . fortune . retrieved september 16 2013 . suzanne choney july 15 2009 . smartphone whoops is painful and expensive . nbc news . retrieved september 16 2013 . david dahlquist april 21 2010 . drivesavers adds ipad data recovery service . pcworld . retrieved september 16 2013 . andy ihnatko september 19 2012 . the camera from the bottom of the lagoon . techhive . retrieved september 16 2013 . neil j. rubenking april 11 2008 . what drives can drivesavers save . pc magazine . retrieved september 16 2013 . drivesavers answers your data recovery questions . fileslinger . retrieved september 16 2013 . http www.diamondcertified.org report drivesavers inc 0 retrieved august 15 2016 external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title drivesavers & oldid 734676829 categories computer forensicscomputer companiesdata recoverycompanies established in 1985hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 august 2016 at 23 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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