SATAFIRM S11 or SATABURN S11 error code. What does it mean? If you are experiencing the SATAFIRM S11 or SATABURN S11 error code on your solid-state drive, you have come to the right place! The engineers here at Gillware recently…
Our data recovery lab received an interesting case recently. On the surface, it looked like just an ordinary USB flash drive that had had its plug snapped off—the single most common form of data loss in USB flash drives. But…
Unlike hard disk drives, which can make a lot of noise when they kick the bucket, solid state drives live and die in near-complete silence. This can make it hard for a layperson to have even the faintest clue what’s…
Updated 1/8/2019 Gillware’s SSHD Repair Services Seagate introduced its SSHD (Solid-State Hybrid Drive) line of hard disk drives to marry high-speed flash memory with high-capacity hard disk data storage. While the cost per-gigabyte of solid state drives continues to fall,…
[vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The client in this data recovery case study had a USB thumb drive that no longer did anything when they plugged it in. The thumb drive was well and truly dead. Unfortunately, the client had been using…
What Makes Flash Different From Disks? Obviously, your memory cards do not store data the same way your hard drive does. The mechanical components necessary to store data magnetically simply cannot be miniaturized to the point where a hard drive can comfortably…
Updated: 1/14/2019 The Intel SSD 8MB bug began appearing in 2011, with Intel confirming the firmware bug’s “sightings” around August of that year. Since its first appearance, the 8MB bug has vexed countless SSD users. This bug affects Intel’s 320…
Updated November 25th, 2015 Thank you to Cody Dorn for helping write this article. We get cases here every now and then for failed smartphones, whether it be from water damage, dropping it in the perfectly wrong way, or a logical…
In the past few years, we’ve seen the invention and development of a technology known as 3D NAND. If you’re not sure what NAND is referring to, it’s the type of flash memory used in USB’s, solid state drives, and…
