There are a lot of different ways that hard drives can lose data, from physical issues in which the sensitive internal components break down to logical issues in which file system metadata becomes damaged or unreadable. Even disconnecting an external…
Hard drives can lose data in a lot of different ways. Any number of physical issues can break down the drive’s sensitive internal components. Logical issues can render file system metadata damaged or unreadable. Even something as simple as disconnecting…
Hard drives have come a long way from the fridge-sized monstrosities of the 1950s. They’re not just smaller. They pack orders of magnitude more data than the five-megabyte platters in the earliest hard drives could as well. Their tiny size…
Hard disk drives are really incredible inventions when you think about how much data they cram into such a small space (although that alone doesn’t seem too impressive now that we have solid state drives). The fact that a bunch…
Making strong passwords is hard work—but it’s worth it. Leaving your bank accounts, social media accounts, email accounts, and devices protected by insecure, easily-guessed, and easily-broken passwords in this day and age is a bit like leaving your front door…
Your Own Personal Cloud… Is Still A Cloud WD MyCloud external drives are, as their name suggests, meant to give users their own little slice of “cloud storage”. Cloud data storage, like Google Drive or Dropbox, allows you to upload…
The client in this data recovery case had a problem. And soon enough, that problem turned into two problems. Their first problem was that they’d accidentally deleted a bunch of their documents from their Samsung external hard drive. Their second…
This is a 2017 case study. If your drive stopped working after a surge or outage, start with our power outage data recovery service page. Hard drives, like any electronic devices, need electricity to function. But they can also suffer…
The client in this Toshiba data recovery case came to us after their CNC milling machine stopped working. They investigated the milling machine itself and found nothing wrong. They then took a look at the computer controlling the machine. There…
