Noticing hard drive failure can be complex, but several sharp symptoms can display storage device malfunction. When a Seagate internal or external hard drive fails, common signs are overheating, files inaccessibility, and overall strange behavior. But one of the most severe symptoms is strange noise: clicking, buzzing, and beeping. Beeping is not a healthy sound…
DetailsTurning On and Off Instructions Device encryption helps protect your data, and it is available on a vast range of Windows devices. If you turn on encryption, the data on your device can only be accessible to authorized people. If your device stores critical and confidential data, it is essential to take appropriate steps to…
DetailsRecently, we received a RAID 5 array case with three-member drives taken out from Dell PowerEdge R720 Server. The IT technician described that two out of 3 members failed, and the server could not detect enough members to build the logical volume. The most important data we should retrieve is the Quickbooks database and shared…
DetailsClicking noise is one of the most popular mechanical failures amongst hard drives. The clicking is an abnormal sign of a physically damaged hard drive that any computer user can notice immediately. Hard Drive Failure Types Generally, we split hard drive problems into three categories. The first category is called logical failures. These include data corruption,…
DetailsHard disk drives (HDDs) are considered one of the core parts of each laptop, desktop computer, and smartphone. Storing all valuable documents, photos, videos, music files on your computer, they are responsible for devices’ operating and storage systems. If something is wrong with an internal or external hard drive, it becomes dangerous for all important…
DetailsThere are different data loss scenarios, and data overwriting is one of the most common ones. People usually think that modern operating systems, such as Apple and Windows, immediately overwrite deleted files under regular conditions. This is not true. When computer users delete data, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and other operating systems erase the corresponding…
DetailsTechnology has had a huge impact on our daily lives. Today we spent most of the time on our phones, laptops, etc. If in the early 2000s people used technology in a very simple manner, now every business system is based on it. All important files, including agreements, publication materials, financial documents are crucially important for…
DetailsNowadays, data has a significant impact on our lives. We receive and produce information every day, and we need someplace to store it. An external hard drive is a very convenient storage device for many different cases. It is helpful for the lack of main memory in a computer, when it is necessary to transfer large amounts of information, or…
DetailsWhat is a Cleanroom? Cleanroom facilities are widely used not only in the data recovery industry but in others as well. Such industries as pharmacy, food manufacturing, scientific research, and medical equipment also utilize cleanrooms. A cleanroom is basically a space that creates a controlled environment and minimizes the level of pollutants with appropriate temperature and humidity. We all know how harmful the external…
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