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HGST Use Nano-Imprinting to Double Hard Drive Disk Capacity

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News, Information by AdministratorMay 1, 2013

Increased media density in HDDs. Small, very small. That’s all you really need to know. But if you are interested in the limits of superparamagnetism then read on here: HGST …

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Royal Mail / Post Office 2013 pricing: a headache

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News, Information by AdministratorApril 4, 2013

Changes to Royal Mail prices. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to go to a post office in the last few days prepare yourself. We are …

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Seagate Ships Milestone 2 Billion Hard Disk Drives

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorMarch 28, 2013

685,000 HDDs per day from Seagate. Seagate Ships Milestone 2 Billion Hard Disk Drives | News & Opinion | PCMag.com. Most impressively Seagate mentions that they have shipped 1 billion …

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BBC News – Marvell faces huge patent fine over hard disk chips

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorFebruary 13, 2013

Marvell processor on your HDD. “Marvell” is not a name that most computer users would recognise. In fact, most people will have never heard of the company. In the world …

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Western Digital packs 4TB on to a WD Black HDD

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorDecember 13, 2012

New high capacity HDDs from Western Digital – 4TB. Western Digital packs 4TB on to a WD Black hard drive | Chips | Geek.com. The latest in hard disk drive …

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Have Hard Disk Drives Peaked? – Forbes

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorNovember 23, 2012

Peak production for hard disk drive? Have Hard Disk Drives Peaked? – Forbes. Quite an interesting look at the economics associated with hard disk distribution and sale. Those who think …

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Hack attack via Apple iCloud & data loss

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News, Unrecoverable Data by AdministratorAugust 8, 2012

Data loss on iCloud Just in the same way that Solid State Disks are being touted as super reliable (they’re not by the way), it seems that also those Cloud …

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1TB on a single platter

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorAugust 6, 2012

1TB per platter media density HDD. Most people take the increase in storage capacity in Hard Disk Drives and Solid State Disks as a given. We have had a number …

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Farewell Lacie, you won’t be missed.

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorJuly 19, 2012

Lacie bought out – the future customer service can only get better? There are quite a number of media companies in the north west of England. CDR – Manchester Data …

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Working at home, working in the office, not a working HDD

In Blog, Hard Disk Drive News by AdministratorJune 22, 2012

Home office and data loss. Not an entirely clear title, but what it alludes to is not just how much time people in the UK spend working compared with our …

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Wayne Harrison
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Excellent service and total transparency from beginning to end. The prices are competitive and the "no recovery, no fee" is just the icing on the cake. However, the most important thing is the quality of service and utter professionalism - no fuss, just results. I'd value absolutely no reservations about recommending Cheadle Data Recovery and, should I need such services in the future, they will be my first port of call. Delighted.
Response from the owner:Hello Wayne, thanks for the review. I am glad it was possible to achieve a positive result for your failed RAID array and your HDD. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Debbie Hilton
4 weeks ago
John was brilliant. My niece had seven years worth of lesson plans on a broken data stick and nowhere had been able to retrieve it for her until I found Cheadle Data Recovery. John was professional and transparent in regards to recovery and fees which I really appreciated. Payment only required if data is recovered. And it was! My niece was over the moon! Highly recommended this company.
Response from the owner:Hello Debbie, thank you for the review. The 32GB SanDisk memory stick had a hardware failure associated with the controller chip. Via chip off recovery it was possible to make a full recovery of the data. Best regards, John C. Reid.
James White
2 months ago
I had a new M.2 NVME drive fail on me with all my project files on so needed to do data recovery, after a bit of looking around my local area I got directed to Cheadle data recovery as the places I enquired with locally didn't deal with M.2 devices I initially called to seek quotations and John was friendly, polite and professional whilst answering any questions I had about the process, reassuring me that I was dealing with someone who knew what they were doing and giving me confidence that I wouldn't be left short as they operate on a "no recovery, no fee" basis Even going so far as to give follow up advice afterwards regarding how to create backups and other solutions to prevent this from happening in future. I really appreciate you going the extra mile and I cannot thank you enough for getting me my lost time back
Response from the owner:Hello James, thanks for the review. I am glad it was possible to make a good recovery of your failed Corsair 2TB SSD (CSSD-F2000GBMP600). The NAND had degraded and had resulted in a failure of the firmware. On receipt the SSD was stuck in a safe/engineering mode showing a capacity of 0MB. Best regards, John C. Reid.
Phill Dixon
2 months ago
Spoke to John at Cheadle Data Recovery about an enterprise grade HDD that needed recovery. He was completely upfront that the helium filled nature meant it was out of scope but hen spent a great deal of time and effort putting me in contact with places that could. He has made absolutely nothing off my call but spent 40 mins trying to help and recommending other very specialist recovery firms that could potentially help and explaining the process. Absolutely brilliant service
Response from the owner:Hello Phill, thank you for the review. Helium filled HDDs present a major technical challenge for data recovery companies when the mechanical components have failed within the HDD. I am not aware of any UK based data recovery company that has a proven success record when working on mechanical failed helium filled hard disks. As such I recommend HelpDisc/HDDSurgery in Serbia or Morde in Portugal who are making genuine recovery attempts on these disks. Both of which perform work on a 'no-recovery, no-fee' basis, and do not charge for the donor HDD. Unfortunately, I am aware of certain UK based data recovery companies which have charged £1000+ upfront for a recovery attempt on a helium filled disk, where no data has been subsequently recovered, and then on inspection of the disk it has been found that no work has actually taken place. As such, I advise those people with Helium filled HDDs to be cautious of some claims made by certain data recovery companies regarding their technical capabilities and to check the terms of work before any payment is made to the company. Whilst CDR does not work on mechanically failed helium HDDs, we do still work on helium HDDs which have suffered failure associated with the firmware, printed circuit board, bad sectors/degraded media and corruption of the filesystem. Best regards, John C. Reid.

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