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 …
£110 for a 500GB Hard Disk in 2016?
Would you pay £110 for a 500GB Hard Disk in 2016? Your answer should, of course, be, “No.” The sale price on eBuyer (November 2016) for a new 1000GB HDD …
Ransomware – what can you do? How to avoid scams.
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malware which typically encrypts a person’s data, and then the ransomware will request that you pay money (a “ransom”) to get access to your data. …
Counterfeit memory stick – A case study
Counterfeit Memory Stick – Fake Flash CDR – Manchester Data Recovery Services – has covered fake/counterfeit flash NAND devices in previous posts. Usually, we receive these devices in when they …
BBC News – The 12 cyber-scams of Christmas
Cyberscams including Crypto-Locker Data Loss. BBC News – The 12 cyber-scams of Christmas. At least a couple of these can lead to data loss. In particular, we have a number …
“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 …
