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 […]
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 […]
data recovery, hard disk, hard drive, seagate, toshiba, western digitalRecovering 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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Some businesses are happy to rent space on a shared server rather than having one of their own. However if your business expands into a much larger going concern, you may find it is easier and more cost effective to have your own servers. Once you reach this stage you will be responsible for managing […]
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