RAID 5 Data Recovery
RAID 5 systems are not infallible and should be monitored at all times. Immediately upon the failure of any drive in the system, a notification via email, text, etc. should be generated and sent to the responsible party for drive replacement. Always replace a problem...
In most cases data is recoverable from failed hard drives
When Your Hard Drive Fails Do not panic!!! Power down your system, take a deep breath and think about what just happened. Carefully consider the following before taking any other action. Now that you have caught your breath and calmed down we will guide you through...
Things You Need to Know About Recovering Data From Hard Drives
All hard drive data access problems can be classified into 3 distinct areas; HEALTHY DRIVES 1.Data level issues…any meta data corruption within boot sector, catalogue, master file table, etc. and/or logical corruption of file system structure such as accidental...
What hard drive should I buy?
Being in the data recovery business, many of our clients often ask us “What hard drive should I buy?” That is not an easy question to answer without some additional research and data. In a previous post entitled “Looking To Replace Your Hard Drive” I...
Should You Invest in a New Hard Drive? 5 Signs Your Hard Drive Is Failing
When it comes to saving business files, important documents, or personal data like audio and photos on our storage devices, we seldom ever worry about losing them or really even stop to think about how much longer our hard drive will be kicking for that matter. We...
