RAID-5: Fault-Tolerant vs Failure-Proof When you link up three or more drives using RAID-5, special parity data is spread across the drives. Thanks to the parity data, if any one hard drive in the array fails, the RAID controller can…
In this Dell PowerVault recovery case, the client came to us after their Hyper-V host machine had failed. The client’s IT technicians attempted a hard reboot of the server containing their Hyper-V datastores in an attempt to fix the problem.…
When a hard drive comes to our data recovery lab here at Gillware after spending some time in another data recovery company’s lab, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Commonly, the other data recovery company had charged the drive’s owner an…
When your computer freezes or crashes, it’s usually just a minor annoyance—although it can be a major frustration if you’ve gone a few hours without saving your work. But sometimes things go really wrong, and your computer won’t boot afterward.…
In this Kingston SSD recovery case, the client had a 240 GB SSDNow solid state drive installed in their PC. One day, the drive would not show up in the user’s BIOS—the very first thing that starts up when you turn…
In this case study, a small dental clinic had been using a single SAS Seagate hard drive to store their DentiMax dental records database. This enterprise-grade hard drive stored the X-ray images taken by the firm’s DentiMax CMOS sensors, along…
SSDs come in a wide variety of form factors, since they have far fewer constraints on size and shape than traditional drives. This is great for manufacturers of tablets and thin notebooks, because it lets them pack usable amounts of storage…
This crashed server came to Gillware all the way from Spain. The client had an IBM Storwize V3700 server machine with eighteen enterprise-grade hard drives that had failed. They could try to mount the iSCSI targets on the server and,…
Updated: 1/14/2019 The Intel SSD 8MB bug began appearing in 2011, with Intel confirming the firmware bug’s “sightings” around August of that year. Since its first appearance, the 8MB bug has vexed countless SSD users. This bug affects Intel’s 320…
