There are some days where it just feels like technology has developed a vendetta against you. Our client in this data recovery case was having one of those days. Their Windows 10 PC had been acting up. The final straw:…
Our client braced themselves for the worst when their Toshiba Canvio external hard disk clattered to the floor, wrenching itself free of the USB cable tethering it to their computer. Fortunately, when they went back to plug the drive in,…
How a Power Outage Can Kill Your Hard Drive Your hard drive uses an array of complex, sensitive devices to store, read, and write data. Those devices—the hard disk platters and the read/write heads—are the most at risk when the…
The client in this data recovery case had a Western Digital My Book that had stopped working. They would plug the external hard drive into their computer, but Windows would not recognize the device. Upon closer inspection, the client noticed…
“Why Is My Computer Beeping?” A (Brief) Look At Computer Beep Codes We tend to associate beeping with electronics. Even your computer will beep—but when it’s coming from your computer or your computer’s hard drive (external or internal), it’s not…
Unlike hard disk drives, which can make a lot of noise when they kick the bucket, solid state drives live and die in near-complete silence. This can make it hard for a layperson to have even the faintest clue what’s…
The client in this RAID data recovery case had a four-drive RAID-10 array that had failed when two of its four hard drives died. The RAID-10 array had lived inside an Iomega StorCenter IX4 NAS device. With half of the drives…
The client in this data recovery case came to us to get data recovered from their crashed Dell T420 server. This Dell T420 server used a RAID-5 configuration. It had eight two-terabyte Seagate hard drives for a combined total of 14 terabytes of…
Updated: 1/17/2019 What do you do with a dead hard drive? You can use it as a paperweight, a doorstopper, or a bookend. You can even make it into a clock. But before you do any of those things, you should…
