Troubleshooting a Mapped Drive Problem

January 27, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Hard Disk Drive Storage

One way to make it easier for users to access resources on servers is to map a network drive to the shared folder on the server, and occasionally we get enquiries from businesses and organisations from users who are unable to access their data on a networked hard drive. Troubleshooting the problem frequently identifies that […]

drive, hard, mapped, troubleshooting

Cloud Storage Is Dead

February 4, 2014 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Hard Disk Drive Storage

You read it here first. A study out today casts doubt that the UK’s power industry will be able to sustain hungry UK data centres with the power they require to hold all the data stored in the cloud within the next 10 years. Here’s a statistic. Take a large data centre belonging to any […]

News – SSD Manufacturer OCZ Goes Bust

November 28, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage

It looks like OCZ, the makers of the world’s worst SSD hard drive have gone bust. Those of you familiar with hard drives will remember that this drive would randomly go into hibernation mode and nothing could be done to recover it from this state. The result was all the data on the hard drive […]

data recovery, news, ocz, SSD, toshiba

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 […]

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 […]

Solid State Drives – Where Are They Heading?

October 3, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Hard Disk Drive Storage

Solid-state drive adoption will persist to grow and it’ll be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technologies, experts said. SSDs are becoming more attractive as NAND flash memory gets cheaper and faster, as it offers flexibility in usage for a RAM or hard drive alternative, mentioned attendees and […]

data recovery, Solid State, SSD

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 […]

Ok, so what is a headcrash exactly ???

April 8, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage

We’ve all heard the term “HEADCRASH” and know it means something bad has happened to our data and hard drive, but what exactly is a headcrash ? and what does it mean ?? Ok, see the photo above? That’s what a hard disk looks like if you take the lid off, except it shouldn’t […]

DataClinic Ltd Sign A Historic Data Recovery Deal With Seagate

April 5, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage, Seagate

Since 2002, Data Clinic Ltd, the UK’s leading data recovery company has successfully recovered data from faulty and broken hard disk drives for thousands of companies, organisations and people across the United Kingdom. We are delighted to announce that DataClinic Ltd and Seagate Data Recovery Services have formed a unique data recovery partnership in the […]

Advanced Data Recovery Case Study – 750GB Seagate Barracuda

March 26, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General, Hard Disk Drive Storage, Seagate

Data Clinic’s Advanced Data Recovery Service goes from Strength to Strength We’ve just completed the successful recovery a badly damaged 750GB Seagate hard drive that came to us all the way from Australia. The hard drive had previously been sent to other data recovery companies who were unsuccessful in recovering the data. Faults and Problems […]

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