Author Archives: Mike Fiato

About Mike Fiato

I have been working for Prosoft Engineering for 4 years by supporting our Mac & PC users with hard drive utilities and data recovery applications. My focus is continually updating our award-wining products with new versions, by listening to our customers and researching market conditions. I am seasoned high tech professional with 10 plus years of experience in hardware and software as a Technical Support Manager, Field Application Engineer and Product Manager. Specializing in Mac & PC workstation hardware/software support, performance computing, benchmarking, technical marketing and product sales training. I have attended numerous trade shows, provided technical onsite training , supported Tier 1 & 2 OEM's and have submitted performance workstations to SPEC.org for benchmarking verification results. My hands on approach has kept my experience diverse and relevant to the markets I support directly over the years. In addition to my experience listed I genuinely have a special interest in technical trends, advances in mass storage, data recovery, graphics cards and mobile computing. When I have time and can schedule it, I like to go low tech and visit the outdoors, lakes, rivers and oceans to fish for variety of species. I also enjoy traveling, remodeling my house, wood working and online FPS games. Having multiple hobbies is great way to disconnect from work and the everyday schedule to unwind and relax.

7 tips on portable storage devices.

Everyday we utilize various storage media types in a variety of electronic devices. These media types range from Secure Digital cards for cameras and portable devices to USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt external drives. However, the common thread is that they … Continue reading

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How To Securely Erase Your Hard Drive

Securely erasing your hard drive of your personal information has never been more important. If you own a computer, mobile phone, digital camera, PS3 or Xbox you will want to read this article. As we accumulate digital devices, our personal … Continue reading

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Tips on upgrading to Windows 8 the right way.

Windows 8 was release just last week and I thought it would be a good idea to talk about bootable backups and dual-booting operating systems. Let’s start with bootable backups and what it means to the average user. In this … Continue reading

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Which SSD Solid State Drive is the best?

SSD prices are dropping to a dollar a gigabyte and less these days. Depending on which brand and read/write speed you’re willing pay for, there may be a SSD drive in your budget range. A quick search of “Best SSD” … Continue reading

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iPhoto Library Accidentally Deleted…

Today, I assisted a customer using the Prosoft Data Rescue 3 recovery demo software. This customer accidentally deleted their iPhoto library inadvertently. She was panicking because she was worried she may have lost all her iPhoto pictures from her MacBook … Continue reading

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Securely Wiping Gigabytes of Data Effortlessly

Recently Prosoft Engineering launched MediaTools Wipe, a professional level multi-drive hard drive data wiping tool. As the product manager of MediaTools Wipe, I am very excited about this new multi-drive, secure shredding application and what it brings to the drive … Continue reading

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Prosoft launches MediaTools Wipe

Prosoft launches a new professional drive utility for windows called MediaTools Wipe. A secure erasing tool like this is an invaluable application to have if you own multiple external and internal drives of all types. Every day we store sensitive … Continue reading

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Upgrading your Mac to Mountain Lion the right way.

Since Apple confirmed that it will release its latest version of the Mac OS X Mountain Lion tomorrow, I thought it would be a great idea to cover basic operating system upgrade tips. Mountain Lion will be available through the … Continue reading

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Data Recovery Do’s and Don’ts

Prevention is better than cure as the common saying goes. However, if you’re reading this blog you may have already either incurred a data loss and are researching what to do next. Our support team fields hundreds of calls on … Continue reading

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Prepping your Mac for Mountain Lion

Apple announced recently that their new Mac OS X version, Mountain Lion, will be released next month for $19.00. At this price point it’s expected that many users will opt to upgrade and stay current with the latest operating system … Continue reading

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