Will Ascenzo
Will is the lead blogger, copywriter, and copy editor for Gillware Data Recovery and Digital Forensics, and a staunch advocate against the abuse of innocent semicolons.
When Good SD Cards Go Bad
Updated 1/7/2019 What Makes a Good SD Card Go Bad? Good SD cards can go bad for a variety of reasons. There is a long list of potential culprits in situations like this, ranging from “you ejected the card too…
Seagate NAS Recovery Case Study: Firmware Foibles
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Seagate NAS recovery services. This client had been using their Seagate Central NAS device for remote storage. Over time, the device had started to behave oddly, intermittently refusing to…
Data Recovered from a Formatted SD Card
The client in this memory card recovery case study had an eight-gigabyte SanDisk SD card full of videos. Or, at least, it had been full of videos, until they reformatted it. Soon after they’d reformatted the memory card and wiped…
QNAP NAS Recovery Case Study: It’s (QNAP) Turbo Time
Our client here brought their QNAP Turbo NAS device to Gillware when their data became inaccessible. The TVS-471, with three hard drives in a RAID-5 array, held their business’ entire financial records. When it stopped responding, those records went up…
Fixing a Smoking Hard Drive
Someday, the hard disk drive inside your computer may become a fire hazard. In this data recovery case, our client came to us for our hard disk repair services after their computer began to smoke, make crackling noises, and emit a…
Escaping a Windows 10 Startup Repair Loop… With Gillware’s Help
If you depend on your computer (as many of us do), few things in this world can make your heart skip a beat like an infinite startup repair loop. When Window’s own startup repair gets stuck, it’s easy to fear…
RAID Recovery Case Study: RAID 5 Failure and Reconstruction
How RAID Reconstruction Works in RAID-5 RAID-5 is one of the most popular forms of RAID, and it’s not hard to see why. When you combine three or more hard drives into a RAID 5 array, you get three benefits.…
HP ProLiant Data Recovery Case Study: Yellow Means Caution
HP ProLiant Data Recovery Case Study: Yellow Means Caution Server Model: HP Proilant DL360 G5 Server RAID Level: RAID-5 Drive Model: Seagate Savvio 10K.5 9TE066-150 Total Capacity: 600 GB Operating System: Windows Server 2008 Situation: Yellow status lights for all…
NAS Device Drive Prompts for Reformat
This client brought their Western Digital My Cloud to the NAS recovery experts at Gillware when the device cut them off from their data. They’d been using the personal NAS device to store their family photos and videos… until, that…