The client in this data recovery case study had a Drobo unit on the fritz. The Drobo unit, a storage device produced by Data Robotics, could not be mounted on the client’s Mac. Drobo’s dashboard reported no failed hard drives,…
This client came to us for our NAS array recovery expertise after losing the data from their Western Digital My Book Live Duo. The device had stopped responding and was no longer accessible. They pulled the My Book Live device’s…
The client in this data recovery case lost the data on their Seagate BlackArmor NAS device when the device became unresponsive. The NAS was not visible in Windows Explorer. Trying to force access the device prompted the Windows error code…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17069″ img_size=”700×600″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When it comes to running a business, the question of data storage can be tricky. Requirements usually exceed simply buying some cheap external storage, but most small businesses can’t justify the cost of buying an expensive enterprise-grade…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
When this client’s IBM System x3650 M3 server crashed, they feared the worst. IBM had ended both production of and support for this particular model years ago, and if something were wrong with the server itself, it would mean either trying…
