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Data Recovery News - Mar 2010
15.3.10:
Added a page on our RAID
recoveries from non-standard sectors sizes
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Data Recovery News - Feb 2010
Jan 2010: A well know female TV chef sends in her failed units for
successful data recovery.
Feb
2010: Our R&D technical specialist Zi is short listed for the
Chinese Rising Star award for his splendid work developing our Advanced
Data Recovery services.
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Data Recovery News - December 2009
3.12.9
Added an article regarding the possible future developments
in data storage technology and techniques.
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Data Recovery News - September 2009
14.9.9:
We are having some success in data recovery from SSD hard disks. [These
disks store their data in memory chips rather than the more conventional
rotating platter(s) and read / write heads. Because of this, most
exisiting data recovery techniques are not applicable and can not
be used.] The success is due to the development of new methods and
techniques in accessing and organising the data once it has been read
from the individual memory chips.
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Data Recovery News - August 2009
5.8.9:
Added a page on recovering
data from hard drives with seized spindles. Due to equipment purchased,
we are now able to offer a near 100% success rate on drives with this
type of fault.
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Data Recovery News - July 2009
9.7.9:
Once again we recover a Snap Server RAID array that another data recovery
company could not. Snap Servers can be difficult to recover because
of the customised file systems they often use. In this case we had
to write some custom code to emulate the workings of the server's
filesystem. As far as we know, we are the only UK company who can
recover these devices, this is primarily due to the calibre of staff
we employ. Recovering data from
Snap Server RAID arrays.
16.7.9:
Added a PDF that summarises our RAID
data recovery services
23.7.9:
It seems that some of the Seagate
Momentus 7200.3 drives have the 7200.11 firmware problem too - page
updated.
30.7.9:
Another high profile job completed. This one was a RAID for Celtic
Football Club.
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Data Recovery News - June 2009
4.6.9:
Added a page about Data
recovery from Western Digital GreenPower hard disk drives
17.6.9: Our investment in quality staff leads to us offering our superb
SQL data recovery service
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Data Recovery News - March 2009
10.2.9:
Added a page about
Western
Digital drives that produce WDC ROM MODEL error messages
10.2.9: Over the years we have seen quite a
few high profile jobs. Last month we recovered a hard drive belonging
to a UK band who, I think it's fair to say, would currently be ranked
as the biggest rock band in the world. Unfortunately we can't say
anything else about it, due to Non-Disclosure. This month, we have
recovered a drive belonging to the BBC containing video footage that
will be broadcast during this year's Comic Relief telethon. Data
Clinic recover disk drive for BBC Comic Relief.
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Data Recovery News - February 2009
10.2.9:
Added a page about the firmware
corruption and recovery possibilities on Maxtor DiamondMax 22 hard
disk drives
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Data Recovery News - January 2009
5.1.9:
Across the board recovery capabilities for the new Seagate 7200.11
drives.
12.1.9: Added a page: Recovering
data from Seagate 7200.11 & ES.2 Barracuda hard disk drives
19.1.9: Added a page about the Advantages
and Disadvantages of external hard disk drives
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Data Recovery News - December 2008
8.12.8:
New page added - Recover
data from Virtual Machines (VMs)
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Data Recovery News - November 2008
21.11.8:
New page added - Failure
symptoms and data recovery information for Buffalo Terastation / Linkstation
XFS storage devices
12.11.8: New page added - How
to identify electronics faults / failures / problems on Seagate Barracuda
hard drives
+
Data Clinic are now able to recover data from ALL models of IBM /
Hitachi drive with service area damage. This type of fault on IBM/Hitachi
disks previously meant that the data was unrecoverable.
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Data Recovery News - October 2008
20.10.8:
New page added - Data Compass
data recovery tool
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Data Recovery News - September 2008
9.9.8:
New page added - Recovering
data from RAID6 arrays
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Data Recovery News - August 2008
8.8.8:
New page regarding specific
failures on Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 (HTS54100) hard disk drives
added.
6.8.8: RAID data recovery testimonials
/ reviews / recommendations added.
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Data Recovery News - June 2008
16.6.08:
Data Clinic Ltd launch Computer Science Labs - offering hardware,
software, English language training and support of all SalvationDATA
products. Visit http://www.computersciencelabs <dot> com
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Data Recovery News - April 2008
19.4.08:
Data Clinic Ltd and SalvationDATA sign exclusive agreement. Read
more...
The
Limitations of Magnetic Recording
The
areal density of magnetic recording has increased hugely since its
inception in the early 1950s, despite technical obstacles that have
at times seemed to spell the end for this type of data recording.
Hard
disk drives currently operate at data rates of 30 Mbyte/s and have
areal densities of 5 Gbit/in (squared) but in only four or five years
could increase to 100 Mbyte/s and 40 Gbit/in (squared) respectively.
Doubling
areal density is achieved by reducing other dimensions, such as track
width, head gap, medium grain size, medium thickness and magnetic
spacing, by a square root of two. This process lessens the strength
of the signal amplitude and therefore greater read head sensitivity
(eg. MR and GMR heads) is required. While during the 1970s it was
considered impossible to achieve the low flying heights required,
new head slider designs and disk polishing techniques have made current
flying heights of 20-30 nm a reality.
It
is believed however that conventional magnetic recording cannot continue
to increase indefinitely; the thermal stability of written bits and
magnetic grain size will ultimately limit growth. In addition, the
magnetic materials of the head and the write electronics should prove
to be technical obstacles to achieving increases in recording speed.
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Data Recovery News - March 2008
Head
Change Tools
12.3.08:
Our latest head change tools for the newest hard drives have now been
manufactured & delivered.
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Data Recovery News - February 2008
New
Data Recovery / Hard Disk Drive Repair Tools
1.2.08:
We have some new tools that allow the correct removal
and replacement of hard disk drive platter assemblies.
20.2.08:
Data Clinic R&D recover data from a password protected Seagate
ST96812A hard disk. There is no commercially available tool on the
market to do this.
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Data Recovery News - January 2008
Welcome
to 2008 - A Happy New Year to everyone !
What
will 2008 bring ?
- Higher
capacity hard disks - The advent of perpendicular recording
technology means we will see greater hard drive capacities squeezed
into the same space. Five years ago an 80Gb hard drive was quite
rare, now 500Gb drives are common.
- Cheaper
hard disk costs - Year on year the cost per unit falls,
this trend is set to continue.
- The
growth of flash disks - Especially in consumer electronics,
but mainly because of cost and speed, flash disks will not seriously
threaten conventional hard disks in the PC / Server marketplace
- The
dominance of SATA over PATA
- Diskmaster
disk technology for recovering
data from hard drives
- The
number 1 rule to avoid data loss still remains: "BACKUP
YOUR DATA"
10.1.8:
I've just added an information page and some pictures about hard
disks that develop motor faults. We believe the problem is related
to the drive's fluid dynamic bearing - we were the first company to
annouce this could cause problems back in 2004/5.
