Whether you’re dealing with accidentally-deleted files, deleted or corrupted LUNs, or issues with an unresponsive NAS server or virtual machine setup, it can be a challenge to recover data on an Ext4 file system, even when there are plenty of…
Every once in a while, a DVR comes into Gillware’s data recovery lab to give our DVR video recovery specialists a challenge. Or, specifically, (usually) the hard drive from a DVR unit comes into Gillware’s lab. These things enter our…
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…
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…
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Seagate NAS recovery services. This client had been using their Seagate Central NAS device for remote storage. Over time, the device had started to behave oddly, intermittently refusing to…
Our client here brought their QNAP Turbo NAS device to Gillware when their data became inaccessible. The TVS-471, with three hard drives in a RAID-5 array, held their business’ entire financial records. When it stopped responding, those records went up…
This client brought their Western Digital My Cloud to the NAS recovery experts at Gillware when the device cut them off from their data. They’d been using the personal NAS device to store their family photos and videos… until, that…
A RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a way to string individual hard drives together so that they behave like a single giant hard drive. These drives are usually linked together in a network-attached storage device or storage area…
