Case study: Samsung SSD 840 Pro 120GB / 256GB / 512GB The followings models of Samsung 840 SSD can have a particular flaw which relates to a failure of the …
HDD Failure: Toshiba MK3265GSXN – firmware or heads?
Mixed symptoms of failure – Toshiba MK3265GSXN This article applies to MK3265GSXN disk and many other ’65GSX’ series of HDD. CDR has seen a high incidence of a very specific …
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 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 …
Source Code in TV and Films – Incorrect Data
Filmmakers make up the data. Not entirely related to data recovery, but we liked the story. It appears that film and TV makers have been hacking off unlikely bits of …
Information: Hard disk drive firmware failures
Firmware failures – what are they? At CDR we try to give customers plenty of information to help them understand how their hard disk drive or solid state disk has failed, what can be …
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 …
How easy is it to find a donor hard disk drive? Part 1.
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 …
