Just about all manufacturers want to push us into the cloud. Free choice? Go ahead!Every manufacturer assures us that everything is first class protected and that we do not have to fear any leaks of our data. They always forget the weakest link, namely the person himself.I have seen many passwords in my career, from non-existent to usable to comple

A raid 6 with 12 disks of 3 TB each. It contained 24 TB of data.It took some effort to find the right configuration, but we finally succeeded and we are now saving all the data (it will take a while :-) )

We recently cooperated with the Volt op een program.The intention was that they would try to destroy some disks and that we could try to see if we could still get access to the data. p>It was a fun challenge to participate in this. Of course, such a program is much too short to provide nuanced comments.There are so many parameters that play a role

Recently, Seagate launched a new line of hard drives, namely the SSHD, which combines a small flash chip with a regular hard drive. The flash chip acts as a buffer for the read and write operations. Seagate likes to present it as a combination of an SSD with an HDD that combines the best of both worlds.The problem in this specific case is that the

We recently received a hard drive that had been in a fire, after which the fire brigade had drowned it with their water hoses. That was a fun challenge.

< /p>When opening we were shown this. When testing the magnetic material, this turned out to be OK; so there was

We recently received a drive that had been with a competitor.Our client was not satisfied with the proposed price and decided to entrust the drive to us.Immediately When the drive came to us we saw that something was wrong.The ROM that was on the circuit board was not soldered properly, that was already a first point.When we Once we had sorted that

We were asked by a surveyor if we could recover the data from his defective Trimble Ranger. These devices work with flash memory and Windows Mobile. No data recovery company appeared to support this. A fun challenge for us again. The problem was also that the device had to continue to work, because the problem could be solved with a software upgrad

For the program Volt on the Belgian television channel één our help was requested.The aim of the program was to check what was the most efficient way to destroy data on a harddrive.You can find the complete video here:  Read the complete post

We keep receiving old harddisks for recovery.These are harddisks with the old MFM or RLL interface from the 80's of the previous century.Appearantly these harddisks are still used in machinery that is irreplacable of that would require huge investments to replace them.Especially for these harddrives we made a special setup. Read the complete post

Some weeks ago we got the harddisks of this server in for recoveryThe discs can be seen here beneeth:6 sas discs from a  raid 10Although all discs were heavily burnt we could (thanks to the rai