Whilst CDR might receive positive online reviews, it is a very pleasant surprise when a customer goes a little further. This week a parcel arrived. Rather than a HDD or …
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 – skewed spindle
Case study: Toshiba MQ01ABF050 – skewed spindle An unusual failure in a Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB 2.5″ laptop hard disk drive (HDD). The owner of the laptop had fallen down a …
Thecus N3200 – 3 Disk RAID 5 recovery
RAID-5 Recovery after a two disk failure Recently CDR received in a 3 disk Thecus RAID array. This was from a home user which was using a NAS to share …
Counterfeit Memory Sticks
Counterfeit memory stick data recovery. In previous posts, CDR has highlighted some of the problems when working on counterfeit flash storage (memory sticks and memory cards.) As these devices look …
Apple XSERVE RAID Recovery – Unusual block ordering
Apple XSERVE – Non-standard RAID recovery. A recent CDR RAID-5 case study showed an example of a typical RAID-5 data recovery. This was considered to be ‘typical’ on the basis …
100+ Real data recovery reviews
Over 100 Data Recovery Reviews. Nearly all of the reviews which we gather for CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – are found on the Google+ Business listing. Thank you …
Case study: Typical RAID-5 data recovery after multiple disk failure
Methods to recover data from a RAID-5 Array RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is used to provide increased storage reliability and less downtime. The two most common implementation …
WD3200AAJS – Pinnacle firmware failure
Common fault: WD3200AAJS firmware failure. This case study relates to a HDD in which the owner reported that the HDD was not detected by any computer, and the HDD would …
HDD Failure: WD10EZEX-07ZF5A0 – Motor bearing
Model number: WD10EZEX-07ZF5A0 (Western Digital 1TB Blue) Serial: WMC1S7148812 Date of manufacture: November 2013 The hard disk drive was from inside a desktop computer belonging to a German multinational engineering …
HDD failure of the month – WD20EARX / WD1001FALS
Western Digital (WD) HDD firmware failure – ‘Slow Responding Fault’ UPDATE 15/06/2016: The fault described in the case study below can be common in all modern Western Digital hard disk …
