Posts Tagged ‘disc recovery’

Toronto and Vaughan RAID Data Recovery

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Enterprise level RAID arrays often use SCSI or SAS (serial attached SCSI) hard disk drives. Compared to PATA and SATA IDE hard drives, SCSI and SAS are not as common. And as a result few data recovery companies have much experience with them.

Fortunately, Memofix (located in Vaughan, Ontario) has been around for so long that we still remember when all servers and RAID arrays used SCSI hard drives. I too have been “around” for a long time and during my 12 years at ActionFront and Seagate Recovery Services I was the “go to guy” for SCSI recoveries. By the end of my career at these Toronto GTA based recovery companies, I was full-time management with the exception of working exclusively on cases that used SCSI hard drives. As a result, I became thee expert at resurrecting dead SCSI and SAS drives. And as they were most often used in RAID arrays, my skills at rebuilding and recovering RAID data was also very good.

At Memofix this expertise has been passed on, but I still personally monitor every SCSI, SAS and RAID array we receive. I believe we are the best in the industry whether that RAID is used on a MAC. Windows, Unix or even a Solaris operating system. If you need some expertise on your failing RAID call the professionals. http://www.memofixdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-raid.php

Laptop Hard Drive Crash

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

An Unrecoverable Notebook Hard Drive

Many of the 2.5″ hard drives designed for laptop, notebook and netbook applications use glass platters. The glass platters can be manufactured with smoother and flatter surfaces which allow the heads to be flown closer to the disk surface. This in turn allows the manufactures to increase the density and store more data in the same space.
However, glass isn’t exactly known for its indestructibility and this picture illustrates the problems. This Western Digital laptop drive originally had two disks but the top disk has shattered into a hundred pieces. No useful data will be recoverable in this situation.