In a typical week for some data recovery shops you’ll get standard recovery jobs where drives or files are not accessible to the end user, or maybe an easy, dropped drive case where there is no platter damage and you just need to swap out the head stack assembly. You might also get 1 or […]
Tales from the Blizzard Data Recovery Lab
Technical advice for data recovery, tips for data preservation, and general wisdom from a team who has been recovering data and working on computers and other electronic hardware for decades.
Hard Drive Read and Write Heads
Sep 05, 2016Photos of hard drive heads and information about the transition to 4k sectors.
WD10JPVX-75JC3T0 – Case Study
Jun 26, 2016The case of the dropped WD10JPVX-75JC3T0. Hard drives that are dropped while they are in use can present some of the most complex data recovery jobs. This was one of those jobs.
WDWD5000LPVX Head Replacement
Mar 17, 2015This is what it looks like inside a Western Digital WD5000LPVX-11V0TT0. As you can see they don’t look very complicated. The heads are pretty durable compared to some other brands and models.
Seagate 3.5 inch Ramp Set from HDD Surgery
Dec 27, 2014Seagate 3.5″ ramp set made by HDD-Surgery. When precision matters for data recovery success.
Welcome to the Tech Bench
Oct 25, 2014With the launch of our new website I look forward to providing a look into the daily operations at our data recovery lab. I will add some recovery examples and information that might help others understand the data recovery process, pitfalls, and tricks. Hopefully sharing some of my experiences will help others successfully recover data […]