Hard disk drive donor parts for data recovery A significant proportion of the hard disk recoveries we receive require donor parts. That is to complete the recovery of data from …
Symantec: ‘NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X’ • The Register
Symantec Backup – Behind the curve? Symantec: ‘NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X’ • The Register. Well done Symantec! {Ahem} You are only several years behind the likes of DeltaCopy / …
Solid State Disk reliability – no need to backup?
How reliable are Solid State Disks (SSDs)? We have already had one or two customers tell us that after the failure of their hard disk drive (HDD) they have decided …
Head crash gallery – when data cannot be recovered
Unrecoverable HDDs – Head-crash. Non-recoverable data is not good for any party. The customer does not get their data back, and we do not get paid, anything. Our ‘no-recovery, no-fee’ …
December RAID follow up
RAID Array Data Recovery follow-up. Following the Christmas time post regarding the six RAID arrays Cheadle DATA Recovery Ltd received in during December, I thought it might be useful to …
Scientists Fabricate Magnetic Data Storage Unit with Area 4 by 16 nm
More data, less space used. Scientists Fabricate Magnetic Data Storage Unit with Area 4 by 16 nm. The German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and IBM scientists have developed …
Hard drive manufacturers cutting warranties as of 2012
Shorter HDD warranty – are they less reliable? Hard drive manufacturers cutting warranties A news summary of the changes announced by Western Digital and Seagate regarding the warranty period of …
New Year 2012 – Normal business has resumed
New Year 2012 – Business Resumes Normal office hours have resumed after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Cheadle Data Recovery is working as quickly as possible through the HDDs …
Merry Christmas
Christmas Office Hours 2011. CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – like many other data recovery companies, is taking a welcome break over the Christmas period. Doors close here at …
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 3 RAID-5, 2 RAID-0, and RAID-1 from a NAS box
Multiple RAID array failure. If system administrators or home users ever thought that their data would be perfectly safe as it was on a RAID/server device please review your setup. …
