Discontinued:
We have decided to stop sharing our resources with any labs who make the requests and are limiting access to them within our circle of peer labs around the globe who also share their resources with us, too.
Can a Hard Drive Work with One Dead Head?
In a recent forum discussion that went on a tangent about the risks of running DIY data recovery programs without properly diagnosing a hard drive, one data recovery specialist had the understanding that if a drive detected and was able to read data, the heads must be...
Hard Drive Recovery by Brand Statistics
Based on a snapshot of about 200 sequential projects that came in at the first of 2013, we have produced the following chart outlining the percentage of drives we have seen, based on the hard drive manufacturer.
Just for fun – Amateur steps on how not to safely recovery data
Over the past few years, we've seen numerous posts on the internet and engaged in conversations with technicians and end users who believe they know more about data recovery than we do. Here is a summary of the "Right" way of doing data recovery according to those...
RAID 5 – Is Your Data Safe?
Many different technologies have been created to help reduce the chances of data loss. It has been openly accepted that there is no perfect storage medium; yet, many technicians will use RAID 5 and swear by it. The idea of having two points of failure seems like a...
How to Disable Safe Sleep in MacOS 10
Apple's 'Safe Sleep' is a major factor for iBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro hard drive crashes. When the user closes the lid with the system still on, they are expecting that the system is entering a sleep mode by powering down the hard drive and just uses enough power...