Friday night Pharaoh (Seagate 7200.12 500GB) To finish the week. Work replacing the failed head assembly in a Seagate 500GB ST3500418AS. This is a Barracuda 7200.12. The engineering name is …
Head-assembly swap: Seagate ST31000528AS
21/2/2019 – Seagate 1000GB 7200.12 Barracuda A desktop HDD provided by an IT Support company on behalf of their customer. The HDD was making a distinctive clicking sound. Quickly it …
FreeNAS Linux RAID
9/9/2017 – 4 Disk RAID-5 FreeNAS – Multiple HDD failures Work has recently been completed on a four disk RAID-5 network attached storage (NAS) device. The four disks came from …
Seagate 2TB Backup Plus – not detected
23/8/2017 – Seagate 2000GB external HDD – not detected by any computer A Manchester city centre-based Landscape and Ecology consultancy had a considerable number of design files for clients on …
WD20NMVW mechanical failure
28/07/2017 – WD20NMVW – Failed Read-Write Heads A 2000GB (2TB) portable HDD was being used by a furniture design company to store data associated with their newly designed products, as …
Data Recovery Scam Example – Inform yourself
22/7/2017 – ST3000DM001. Pre-opened HDD This week CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – received a 3TB HDD from a media company based in Sale, Cheshire. The drive contained video …
Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro
14/7/2017 – Ransomware Locked MacBook Pro A user of an Apple MacBook Pro (2013) had suffered either a malware attack or breach of his iCloud account. The result of which …
128GB MicroSD counterfeit
05/7/2017 – 128GB MicroSD fake capacity Today, CDR has been working on a MicroSD memory card which had a reported capacity of 128GB. The memory card had been purchased from …
Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB damaged platter
30/6/2017 – ST4000DM000 – Contamination inside the disk A Seagate ST4000DM000 hard disk drive was received from a Manchester-based media company. The HDD was from an external “Backup Plus Hub” …
Detached read-write heads
28/6/2017 – HDD read/write heads detached A Western Digital My Passport 500GB was received for recovery. The drive was spinning, but an audible clicking and scratching sound could be heard. …
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