What is better? HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive)?

SSD vs HDD has been an epic battle of opinions and facts for a while now. Details matter.

Thoughts on Recovering Deleted Files on MacBooks aka "files disappeared"

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Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Quality on Odd Capacity Hard Drives (320GB, 750GB, 1.5TB, 3TB, 5TB, etc)

In terms of Hard Disk Drive reliability and data recovery, what is the difference between odd and even capacity hard drives?

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Data Recovery on Samsung 980 and 990 NVMe SSD Models & Reliability

SSD Reliability and Data Recovery and on Samsung and other brand model Solid State Drive models

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Clients often ask: What model or brand external drive is better?

Client: I know this is asking for free advice, but is there a better model/brand drive I should be purchasing? While I obviously don’t intend to be throwing around my hard drive and cause physical shocks, I still have a cat and if Se@g@te HDD is especially hard I’m wondering if I should be looking at something besides the first one I find on Am@z0n. See tech’s answers below…

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USB Flash Drive Data Recovery & Chips Quality

The text below is an email we send to a customer to her USB Flash Drive question as follows:

How come it would be 99% recovery? Are some of the files damaged or something?

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Fusion Drive Data Recovery - Screw up

Well, if they remove the drives outside your iMac for data recovery, please ensure you are aware and that the techs verify that you have a Fusion Drive. A Fusion Drive on an iMac is a combination of a large capacity HDD and lower capacity SSD. Both those devices are needed to have a complete file recovery. Can check for all details by serial number lookup at everymac.com. Watch video for full data recovery description

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Dropped WD external drive. What could happen?

Is file recovery possible on dropped WD external drive. It is, but is it worth it?!?

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Data recovery from USB WD external drive

This Western Digital USB based external drive no longer mounts correctly on the customer's MacBook. The data is hardware encrypted from the factory. If this model WD hard drive fails on you, removing the HDD from the enclosure and connecting to computer will not allow for a successful recovery, because the data will be encrypted, therefore not mounting the data volumes correctly. What to expect?

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Hitachi HDD with Scrambled Firmware

This is an example of a Hitachi (HGST) hard drive that sustained firmware corruption, where the drive no longer works correctly, consequently the drive is completely inaccessible.

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How to: Promise Pegasus R6 RAID 5 Data Recovery of 6 x3TB Seagate Hard Drives in Cambridge MA

Our data recovery specialists successfully completed a local data recovery of this Promise Pegasus R6 RAID5 array of 6TB Seagate HDDs, each with 3TB capacity. This is a Thunderbolt based external drive recovery, which embodied failure of 2 drives, one mechanical and one with degradation as result of bad blocks. How?

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What is Stiction? Common on Laptop HDDs, rare on Desktop HDDs

What is it?

Stiction is a condition of an HDD where the reading heads arm gets stuck onto the surface of the disks.

Read more to see how it happens, how to prevent it and what to do about it.

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Was the Apple Store unable to help you with your MacBook?

Often times, if your MacBook has failed due to user error, such as spilling liquid, or just electronics failure, and the Apple warranty has expired, chances are the Apple Genius Bar technicians will not be able to help you. In such situations, the Apple Store will likely only offer to repair your MacBook by replacing any of the major components.

But what about your critical data in need of data recovery service? The Genius Bar technicians will likely recommend seeking a professional data recovery company. Why?

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How to recover data from a RAID0 WD My Book Duo with x2 8TB WD Red Helium Hard Drives

Performing data recovery on this RAID0 WD My Book Duo with two 8TB WD Red Helium model hard disk drives was very tricky. Why?

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Why does a damaged hard disk drive not spin?

An HDD not spinning could be caused by a couple of failures, most times could be mechanically related, while some times electronically related. This article explains when a hard drive does not spin as result of PCB electronic failure.

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EMC2 with 4 HDD RAID 5 NAS Data Recovery

NAS devices are great, especially those RAID array based, which allow larger storage capacity, redundancy and fault tolerance. While Network Attached Storages (NAS) may seem bullet proof, they fail fairly often, simply as regular drives do. Would you like to know why?

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Tough to recover files from a WD HDD in 2007? Still tough 10 years later.

One of our computer shop partners in Walpole MA received a desktop computer with a clicking 160GB WD Hard Disk Drive in need of data recovery service. Matter of fact it was a RAID 1 array of two drives of the same model HDD, where one failed months ago and the other just recently.

Back in 2007, when…

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Have a dead MicroSD or SD Card? Were you told it is "dead"?

Were you using a MicroSD or SD Card and it became inaccessible all of a sudden?

This happens often with flash based devices such as MicroSD Cards, SD Cards, Compact Flash (CF) Cards. Flash failure happens more frequently than people can imagine, therefore flash data recovery services are in high demand.