RAID and Server Technical Support Helplines: A Warning

April 3, 2014 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

Most NAS RAID and server manufacturers also provide a technical support service, often an online forum or helpline to assist customers with RAID and Server difficulties. In theory it’s a good idea but we wish the likes of Dell, HP, IBM and all the NAS manufacturers would actually educate their technical support staff a little […]

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Data Recovery on Microsoft Exchange Server

March 10, 2014 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

Microsoft Exchange Server is an application often used by companies to centrally handle their email, contact and calendar data. The Exchange application writes all it’s data to a container file, often a .EDB (Exchange DataBase file) that can be many GB’s in size. The main type of failure is a deletion / corruption to the […]

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 […]

Another Great Testimonial

January 27, 2014 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Western Digital WD

Following on from our review by Hamon after the successful recovery of data from their 2 flood damaged servers shortly before Christmas, here’s another great review, this time from a private individual, Jane Foley. Jane’s faulty hard disk was a 320GB Western Digital drive with mechanical damage. Before she sent it to us her hard […]

Warning: Cryptolocker

January 15, 2014 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Beware people, there’s a very nasty piece of malware currently doing the rounds known as Cryptolocker. It’s malware that gets onto your PC system (typically) by getting you to click on an email that has been disguised to look like it’s from a trusted source. Once this happens the Cryptolocker file executes and some of […]

All About Tape Data Backups

December 20, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

If you have worked with any type of computers for long, you know that eventually storage medium and processors will fail. This could be because of physical damage, corrupt data sectors, or even malicious attempts to hack information. If you depend upon your data, you need to have reliable backups taken frequently. These good backups […]

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Data Clinic Recover Data From Recent Floods

December 11, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery General

Cooling towers… who builds them? Someone has to, and last week we found out who. As you know, last week the UK was battered by storms, – gales, driving rain, floods and snow… you name it, we had it. There was much disruption to both homes and businesses. We were contacted on Thursday by a […]

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It’s Not Just Big Businesses That Need Data Recovery

June 27, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

We’ve been proud to help lots of different businesses recover their data after experiencing hard drive failure or problems with a server. However it doesn’t stop there. It’s easy to assume the only businesses that have trouble with data loss from time to time are the large ones, but this isn’t the case. It’s probably […]