Hard drives and water, like cats and dogs, do not mix well. Sadly, whether due to an accidental spillage, a burst pipe or flood, they regularly come into contact with one another. In many cases, this will be of little concern to those affected. We almost all have some type of data that is important to us, but when data loss has been caused by something which has resulted in more pronounced and widespread damage, its ...
Whilst the use of SSDs in data centres is certainly growing (we've recovered data from thousands of enterprise SSDs), their lower power consumption and cooling costs are still offset by the fact that they store less data than enterprise HDDs and are more expensive. But could that be about to change? Intel have unveiled an SSD capable of storing 32TBs of data (three times the amount of data held in the U.S. congressio...
Recovering data from a failed, damaged or mismanaged piece of storage media can be a complex process. By identifying the problem, the most appropriate solution and the tools that will be required before beginning the recovery process, however, the whole thing becomes a lot more manageable. For this reason, each piece of media – whether an SSD, RAID array, smartphone or anything else – that arrives in our lab goes thr...
Whilst there's no denying SSDs have become far more commonplace over the last decade or so (SSD Data Recovery is a search term that regularly leads people to our website) they're still not quite as ubiquitous as initially expected. This, though, could be about to change: the price of solid state drives (SSDs) are set to fall significantly in the latter half of 2018, a market research firm has claimed. DRAMeXchange, a...
According to several experts, society is on the verge of a data storage crisis. Research has suggested that the total amount of data stored worldwide is doubling every two years. Additionally, more than 90% of the data we create is only accessed within the first three months of its existence before going on to spend the rest of its days accruing metaphysical dust. In short, we need media with significantly greater st...
It may have already been the reason that thousands upon thousands of people around the globe have lost access to their data, but ransomware shows no signs of abating. In fact, it’s becoming more effective. Having begun to infect the storage media of unsuspecting users in January of this year, GandCrab ransomware quickly gained notoriety following it becoming ne’er-do-well’s virus of choice. Those who were inclined to...
Clicking hard drives cause so much panic that they spawned the term ‘click of death’. Whilst a clicking hard drive is never good news, though, it isn’t necessarily a reason to panic. There are multiple reasons why a hard drive can click and although this invariably means there’s a problem, it isn’t necessarily always the extremely problematic mechanical kind people usually expect (though we’d still recommend powering...
‘How much will it cost to recover the data on my hard drive?’ is undoubtedly the most common question Fields Data Recovery’s technicians receive. In spite of this, though, it’s also a question that can’t be answered accurately before we’ve had the opportunity to examine the drive. Yes, we can provide a ballpark figure but, as hard drives can fail for any number of reasons, the cause of the data loss must be identifie...
No one can deny that smartphones have had a significant effect on the way we create, consume and store our data and Fields Data Recovery now recover data from hundreds of iPhones etc. every year. Often, though, due to their relatively low storage capacities, users need to carefully select their most important files (their favourite music or video files, for example) which they will then afford a space in their phone’...
For anyone considering upgrading their PC, SSDs are undeniably an option worth considering. Their lack of moving parts means that they’re significantly quieter than HDDs, consume far less power and, most importantly of all, they’re significantly quicker than any alternative form of high-capacity storage media. As any one of our technicians specialising in SSD recovery will tell you, they're continousy growing in popu...