As businesses grow, so does their need for data storage solutions offering superior capacities, performance and reliability.For many SMEs, the solution to this problem is to utilise RAID arrays. Such a setup can offer impressive read/write speeds, increased protection against data loss and capacities that are easily scaled. The benefits of a RAID differ greatly depending on the way they are setup, however, and this c...
Corrupted files are one of the most common causes of data loss. Most people have experienced it in some form, with files becoming inoperable for no apparent reason. As common as it may be, though, very few people understand why it happens or what can be done to return corrupted files to working order.Why files can become corruptedFiles of any kind can become corrupted for a multitude of reasons; so many, in fact, tha...
Cost reports, client information, SWOT reports; when there hasn’t been enough time in the day to complete important tasks and you need to take some files home with you, the small but dependable USB drive is the perfect device for the job. They’re often the unsung hero of the business world and we see them in our data recovery lab almost every day. More-often-than-not, tough, these drives are unencrypted and this need...
Heat is a typical by-product of many of the devices we use on a daily basis. Engines, for example, produce a tremendous amount of heat; as do items like washing machines, televisions, blenders and more. Anything that uses moving parts or needs an electrical current to function will generate heat. Thanks to advances in cooling technology, overheating is now less of an issue that it has been at any other time – but it’...
There is not a single person on this planet that has not, at some point in their lives, accidentally damaged a household electronic item. Televisions get knocked off stands, metal objects find their way in to washing machines, phones get stood on – these are just a few common examples and, here at Fields Data Recovery, we’re well accustomed to helping people who’ve dropped their laptops or external drives. It’s more ...
When you start up your computer, you’ll be used to hearing a gentle emanate from it. This is the sound of the discs (platters) spinning and, when this no longer happens, your hard drive cannot read your data.How a hard drive stores and retrieves dataAll data that is stored on a hard drive is found within its disks. Everything that is stored here – whether a photograph, music file, word document or anything else – is ...
In order to recover data from a failed media device, a number of tools and techniques can be used. The best course of action is determined by several factors, but the cause of data loss and the type of storage media are most likely to govern what processes are used in order to recover the data. Data recovery software Generally speaking, data recovery software is required when the storage media has suffered from logic...
The data we have stored on our phones has become an integral part of our day-to-day lives. Smartphones have become so commonplace and are capable of doing so much that this is by no means surprising. Everything from our notes, to our contacts and even our photographs and videos are tremendously important, both practically and emotionally. This means, sadly, that if a user finds that their smartphone has lost data, it...
People that regularly use computers will inevitably have to deal with a failed or broken hard drive at some point in their lives. Just as a car will eventually cease to function effectively as a result of one of its many moving parts no longer working as it should, hard drives are mechanical devices and – with their various components becoming a little bit weaker each time they’re used – will eventually fail. Replaci...
So your old hard drive has died, taking with it all of your hard earned and much loved data. You’ve used our online price guide to get your quote, and you’ve sent your device off to us, so we can work our magic and get it back for you. That’s one big problem sorted, but now you have another looming over the horizon. You need a new hard drive. Solid state drives (or SSDs) have become standard over time for boot drives...