SSD vs HDD has been an epic battle of opinions and facts for a while now. Details matter.
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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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SSD Reliability and Data Recovery and on Samsung and other brand model Solid State Drive models
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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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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?
Is file recovery possible on dropped WD external drive. It is, but is it worth it?!?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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Customer's Seagate hard drive came out of an Alienware laptop that was freezing upon boot up causing the Windows operating system loading to stall. Per customer's description, prior repair and data recovery attempts by a computer shop nearby were unsuccessful. So, what happened next?
Read MoreHere is an interesting RAID conversation as many people want to expand their digital file storage. What's your opinion on choosing RAID 10 or RAID 6?
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