How does a hard disk drive store your data? To help customers get an idea of how their data is stored on a HDD, and why it can become faulty …
Christmas working hours 2012
The Christmas period working hours for Cheadle DATA Recovery Ltd are as follows: 22-23 December: Emergency work only 24 December: 9am to 12 noon 25-26 December: Closed 27-28 December: 9am …
“Forensic Data Recovery” – will it get your data back?
What is “forensic” data recovery? Occasionally we hear from potential customers that another data recovery company has told them that to get their data back their storage device (typically a …
A History of Digital Storage for a rainy afternoon
How does digital storage work? A short history. What tiresome weather we seem to be having? The rainy summer season seems to be extending itself beyond the typical confines of …
Hard disk drive firmware – what is it?
Firmware failures in HDDs. Put simply the firmware of the hard disk drive is ‘operating system’ of the hard disk which allows it to function. It is, of course, a …
Week beginning 30th of April – working hours
Due to commitments which relate to standing as a candidate in the local elections on Thursday the 3rd of May the following office hours will apply for the week beginning …
Flash NAND media – an introduction
Solid state disks and memory sticks. Flash NAND based media is a non-volatile storage device. Flash-based storage media is found in camera memory cards, USB pen drives, camcorders, mobile phones, …