Monthly Archives: July 2012

Is a Solid-state Drive More Reliable than a Platter Drive?

Reliability of a SSD vs platter hard drive?

Reliability of a SSD vs platter hard drive?

That’s a very good question. In fact, it’s one that we are hearing more often here at The Data Rescue Center. Folks are beginning to ask our recovery engineers about reliability when they contract our data recovery services. While it’s a good question,...

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Don’t Make These Data Recovery Mistakes! – Part 3

Beware of these data recovery mistakes

Beware of these data recovery mistakes

I’m going to wind up this series with three more recovery mistakes. I’m going to combine two of them since they deal with RAID arrays. However, the first one is a common mistake that many users make because they don’t realize the potential for disaster...

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Don’t Make These Data Recovery Mistakes! – Part 2

These can be potentially hazardous data recovery mistakes

These can be potentially hazardous data recovery mistakes

In an earlier post, we looked at two common mistakes people make when trying to repair and recover a hard drive: poor planning and lack of proper experience and equipment. Here are some more potentially hazardous mistakes. • Partition Re-creation – Deleting a...

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