The RAID Rebuild Process

November 18, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage

Rebuilding a RAID is a complex software driven process that is built into many RAID systems. Rebuilding is used to recreate data on RAID arrays when disks in the array fail. RAID systems offer a degree of data protection from hard drive failure by allowing the RAID array to copy data from the failed disk […]

Data Recovery from SSD Hard Drives

November 1, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

SSDs (Solid State Drives) are different from conventional hard disk drives (HDD’s) in many ways – the biggest of which is that they don’t contain any mechanical moving parts. Now, when you drop an HDD it more often that not causes a mechanical fault on the hard drive and you’ll need the likes of us […]

How To Spot Imminent Hard Disk Failure

October 21, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Seagate, Western Digital WD

Unlike most of a computer’s components, the hard disk is mechanical and can be damaged by both mechanical and electrical factors. As a result, the hard disk is particularly vulnerable to damage and problems. Hard disks are subject to wear and can fail for a number of reasons. Mechanical failure is the cause of most […]

How Easy It Is To Recover Data After It’s Been Deleted ?

October 8, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

Recovering data from a formatted drive is often easier than you might think. This post looks at how software can recover data from a hard disk drive that has been formatted or had data deleted from it. Fundamental to the whole data recovery process is the way in which the data is written to the […]

A Common Fault on WD1002FBYS Disks Found ??

October 4, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage, Western Digital WD

We’ve had several of these drives in for recovery now and noticed some common failure symptoms in some cases. It appears that if power is taken from the drive suddenly the drive “kicks back” and moves the head assembly so violently that pairs of heads twist and dig into both the applicable platter surfaces leaving […]

Get hard drive help at this new web site

September 24, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery General

Data Recovery Tips | data-recovery-tips.co.uk

Data Recovery Tips Is a new website with a unique concept: It provides online hard drive fault diagnosis by describing, in detail, the various types of hard drive fault. If you have a broken hard disk the fault diagnosis procedure will walk you through the various types of symptoms associated with each fault with the […]

Data Recovery on RAID 1+0 Servers

September 16, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

RAID 1+0 is a blend of RAID 1 and RAID 0 setups and requires a minimum of four disks to build. In a RAID1+0 set up, the data is first mirrored across two drives (a RAID 1) and then striped to the other two (a RAID 0). Put the whole thing together and you’ve got […]

Recovery Completed For Everton FC

September 10, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

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A Head’s Up on NAS

September 9, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage

What is NAS?… Do you know?? It stands for Network Attached Storage and as our individual needs for data storage grow and grow, so do the appeal of NAS devices. Here’s a 30 second guide to NAS – with, of course, a bit of data recovery thrown in too…. Well we are a data recovery […]

Remember: Prevention is Always Better than Cure

August 21, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery General

No we’re not talking about being poorly – we’re talking about data retrieval. You alone know the value of your own data, and if you’re eager to ensure it stays safe from harm, you should focus on prevention at all times. What would you do if you lost some or all of the data that […]

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