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.
Hard Drive Failure Recovery
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 to Protect Your Data
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…
WD MyCloud Data Recovery Case Study: The Cloud In Your Living Room
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…
Hard Disk Failure Recovery: Deleted and Dropped
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…
Recovering Data from a Hard Drive After a Power Surge
Hard drives, like any electronic devices, need electricity to function. But they can also suffer a lot of damage if they’re exposed to too much electricity. For your phone, your TV, your computer, etc. an electrical surge is a bit…
Toshiba Data Recovery: Send In the Clones
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…
ZFS Data Recovery: PowerVault MD1000 Failure
What Is ZFS? ZFS is an open-source file system designed by Sun Microsystems. The ZFS filesystem takes on a lot of responsibility—more so than most file systems. Among ZFS’s bag of tricks are advanced journaling and self-healing features designed to…
Data Recovery Lab Prices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A lot of work and materials go into data recovery. As a result, it’s not an inexpensive service. All of the specialized work, materials, and facilities involved in data recovery work have to be compensated for in our data recovery…
WD MyBook Duo RAID Configuration Issues
“Your Device Has RAID Configuration Issues” – How? The error message our client saw in this WD MyBook Duo data recovery case should rightly bewilder anyone who is even vaguely familiar with how RAID-1 works. MyBook Duo external hard drives…