Seagate SSHD ST500LM000 Recovery Update
I have good news for our customers, our developers have been working hard and have produced a solution to the firmware failures of this model hard drive. I posted a blog alerting our customers back in...
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Seagate Ultra Slim Portable Drives
Seagate has another batch of dubious drives in circulation at the moment. These slim disks are often used in external Ultra Slim Portable enclosures, but also appear in laptops. Visually these disks...
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OCZ Z-Drive 4500 PCIe SSD Recovery
I published a post back in 2016 highlighting the problem we were seeing with Sandforce controllers on single SSD drives. We have now also come across this PCIe 3.2TB SSD that uses a Marvel controller...
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Fusion Drive Data Recovery
Urgent Warning: Fusion Drive always consists of two separate disks. If you want your data back you must get both parts. We’ve heard a number of reports that users with failed Fusion Drives are only...
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Fake Seagate Samsung Hitachi Drive
Over the past decade, hard drive companies have been endlessly bought-out and then re-sold. At this point I’ve pretty much lost track of who manufactures which brands now. Since all this restructuring,...
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Why Computers Always Guess the Wrong Copy Time
In the previous part of this series, I explained why small files take longer to copy than large ones. This can make for unpredictable results when you copy a mixed batch of files. I decided to track...
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Staying on Top of Technology
An important part of data recovery is staying ahead of new technology. It’s important that we are able to recover data from wherever people currently store their files. People once stored their most...
View ArticleLatest Ransomware News
Ransomware is not going away and unfortunately the latest variants are difficult to decrypt if at all. 2019 has seen some new variants of strains appear, such as Dharma ETH & Anatova virus to...
View ArticlePaying for Donor Parts
We’ve had a few occasions recently where we’ve had to charge extra for additional replacement parts. We always try to include spare parts within the £89 cleanroom diagnosis, but some disks cost...
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Small RAIDs in Home PCs
Back in the bad old days (mid 2000s), before SSDs and 8TB hard drives, PC builders faced a difficult decision. Everyone wanted more storage space, but large disks were expensive. Fortunately for the...
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Free & Cheap Backup for iPhone, iPad, Android, PC & Macs
If you’ve survived without backups and not lost data, you’ve been lucky so far. But why push your luck? There are a bunch of free & cheap ways to backup that could save you from the pain of losing...
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Recover Data From Soldered SSD
In the last few years, soldered storage has gone from a strange Apple quirk, to a standard way of manufacturing laptops. There was outrage when apple first started soldering RAM and storage, but...
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