Data recovery and the SSD TRIM Feature

January 23, 2020 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, Data Recovery Services

TRIM is a feature on solid state drives (SSDs) that provides an effective way of managing the data they contain. We are interested in TRIM in terms of data recovery because of the way TRIM handles deleted data. It’s not possible to recover deleted data from TRIM enabled SSDs. This is because when an SSD […]

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Help! – Hard Drives and Phones not recognised?

July 28, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery Services

In this post we look at the common problem of devices (either phones or hard drives) not being recognised. If you have a hard drive that isn’t recognised or the same problem on a mobile phone we can usually get the data off for you. Below are 3 examples. SSD Not Recognised Question: “I have […]

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Data Recovery Q&A April 2017 Pt 2

April 12, 2017 / Chris Seeley / Data Recovery General

In this post we discuss 3 customer submitted questions – recovering the data from an HP Proliant server and an SSD hard drive that is getting very hot. Finally we look at rescuing the data from an iPhone 6. Retrieve Data from an HP Proliant ML310 “We have an HP Proliant ML310 (G4) server. Yes, […]

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Help and Advice – SSD’s and iPhones

August 1, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Phone Help in London Here are 3 enquiries about recovering iPhone data that we received this weekend. “We have a iphone 6 that won’t power on and would like to see if there is a way to recover the data off it?” “I have an iPhone 5s that sustained some water damage with the red […]

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Samsung Evo 840 SSD Faults – Beware

July 5, 2016 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

Over the last year our data recovery engineers have encountered an alarming number of these popular SSD’s from Samsung. During this time, we have been able to research and develop our capabilities to allow for many of the cases we have received to be recovered. However, the underlying problem with these Samsung Evo SSD’s is […]

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What’s The Best Way To Destroy The Data On A Hard Drive ?

August 10, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

I’ve just read this mildly entertaining article on The Register web site about how to destroy a hard drive sufficiently to ensure that the data can’t be read from it. The article concludes that it’s surprisingly difficult to destroy a hard drive to the extent that the data can no longer be read, but this […]

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Can Data Be Recovered From SSD Hard Drives?

June 11, 2015 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, News

In this post we’ll be discussing recovering data from faulty SSD type hard drives. First of all what is an SSD hard drive? SSD hard drives are a comparatively new phenomenon. Unlike the older HDD type of hard drive that uses rotating magnetic platters to store data, SSD hard drives have no moving parts and […]

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SSD vs HDD – Who Wins ?

December 3, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd, SSD

If the news and magazine articles are to be believed you could be forgiven for thinking that SSD hard disk technology is sweeping all older technologies like HDD before it. But you’d be wrong. A significant study looking at the industry take up of SSDs and their effect on technology has found that SSD technology […]

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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

Apple recall MacBook Air laptops due to faulty SSD hard drive

November 12, 2013 / Chris Seeley / Data Clinic Ltd

I read with interest that Apple are having to recall some Macbook Air’s due to them having hard disk problems. I use a Macbook Air myself and it’s a wonderful piece of equipment. Infact since having it for about 18 months it’s never ever gone wrong. Anyway, it seems that a particular batch of Macbook […]

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