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Inside DriveSavers, where data loss becomes a grief crisis

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 24, 2026
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DriveSavers, a data recovery firm in Novato, California, has a lobby museum called the Museum of Bizarre Diskasters. On display: a laptop burned shut in a house fire (”like an oyster,” an engineer said), a smartphone shredded by a snowblower, and a second phone bisected by a monorail. Autographed photos of satisfied customer…

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