[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We’re all about the numbers. Gillware evaluates thousands of failed storage devices for data recovery each year. From hard drives to SSDs, tiny micro SD cards to large multi-drive RAID arrays, we see it all. But exactly how many…
Recovery Type: Answering Machine Internal Memory: 2MB Manufacturer: Panasonic Model Name: KX-TG4741 Manufacture Date: 11/2011 Main Symptom: Deleted Data Type of Data: Voicemails Background: This is a unique case study as Gillware has never received a recovery case for an answering machine…
Recovery Type: Monolithic USB flash driveDevice Capacity: 8GBDevice Manufacturer: KingstonModel Name: DataTravelerModel Number: DTSE9Main Symptom: UnresponsiveType of Data: Photos and DocumentsData Recovery Grade: 10 Chip Information:Manufacturer: ToshibaID: THNU3EN00PL07 As capacities go up and costs go down for USB flash drives, people are using them to store more and more data.…
Recovery Type: LaptopDrive Capacity: 750 GBManufacturer: Western DigitalModel Name: BlackOperating System: WindowsModel Number: WD7500BPKX-22HPJT0Manufacture Date: 03/2015Main Symptom: Not bootingType of Data: Photos, Videos, Outlook, Microsoft DocumentsData Recovery Grade: 9 Background: It’s a pretty common theme in a lot of Gillware’s recovery cases: a customer comes to us with a…
What’s a BDR anyway? There’s a lot of talk about BDRs these days, but what a BDR is and how they can be used may be unclear. First off, BDR stands for backup and disaster recovery machine. Different backup solutions…
When a customer comes to you with lost data, you probably have a number of different things you try to get their data back. Oftentimes, one method or another will get the customer’s lost data back and the story has…
Updated November 25th, 2015 Thank you to Cody Dorn for helping write this article. We get cases here every now and then for failed smartphones, whether it be from water damage, dropping it in the perfectly wrong way, or a logical…
Information security can seem very complicated for anyone that works outside the information security business. New security technologies come out every year, while new hacks and exploits are found each year to match. It seems complicated because it is. There…
What does it take to be a reseller for a business-grade backup solution? In most cases, it requires a huge upfront monetary investment and many hours of training. Large backup vendors put these requirements in place as a profit center…
