Posts in External drive recovery
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.

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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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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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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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