Gillware is one of the foremost experts in the industry, with world-class facilities and an unrivaled knowledge base. No matter your situation, from deleted photos on your laptop to a crashed NAS server with all your mission-critical documents, you’re bound to find a case study describing your exact scenario. Gillware recovers data from everything, from hard drives and SSDs to flash drives and SD cards to massive enterprise-grade RAID arrays.
Here you will find every post on Gillware’s blog with the tag “case study.” These studies show off the vast skills of our highly-trained engineers and the breadth of their work.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recently, a potential client contacted us, wondering if we could recover data from their Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3.0 USB drive. The USB flash drive itself was in perfect condition. However, the data was inaccessible because the device was password-protected…
We’ve seen many a crashed hard drive come from dropped laptops. It just comes with the territory—a portable device with a small data storage device inside it, filled with sensitive moving parts. You drop it—it breaks (usually). What a relief…
Our client in this data recovery case had been the proud owner of a Samsung M3 external hard drive. Then the external drive took a tumble off of their desk and hit the floor. In a matter of seconds, our…
The client in this data recovery case study came to us to help them get back a number of photos they’d accidentally overwritten. They’d had a handful of photos in one folder, and a handful of photos in another folder,…
