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…
AJA’s Ki Pro video recorder looks familiar to anybody who remembers the halcyon days when we recorded audio and video on magnetic tape. But instead of storing data on tape, the Ki Pro opts for the much more modern hard…
After a RAID-5 crash, your data is especially vulnerable. How you treat your crashed server before you bring it to a data recovery lab can have a huge effect on a data recovery lab’s chances of success at recovering your data.…
microSD cards seem almost excessively tiny. They can fit comfortably on a dime. And yet that tiny package can store dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of data. They seem to be a tiny mystery. But they are actually just the same…
In this data recovery case, our client came to us with a logical matter. The client had a Samsung external hard drive formatted for use in their PC. When they had plugged it into their Mac, they accidentally allowed the Mac to reformat…
We get plenty of data recovery cases for solid state drives every year. They are fascinating and fairly complex pieces of technology. With price points dropping and technology improving every year, more and more people are buying SSDs. In fact,…
As the marketing intern here at Gillware, I work on a lot of different projects. You know, whatever needs to be done for whoever needs me to do it. One of the things we do in marketing is share customer…
This week we are sharing stories about how Dell and Gillware work together to solve data loss. When a hard drive fails in a Dell computer, Dell solves the real concern for many in the situation: getting back the lost…
Hard drives manufactured in recent years store more data per square inch of platter area than ever before. This increase in data density each device is more complex and sophisticated than their predecessors. To function at these high levels, hard…
