At Fields Data Recovery, we use a number of different tools to ensure we give ourselves the best chance of recovering your precious data. Ranging from standard equipment like soldering irons and stereoscopic microscopes to complex and specialist facilities, like our state of the art data recovery clean room. When hard drives are damaged, its often not impossible to recover data but it can be incredibly difficult to d...
Touch screens have provided us with a much more intuitive interface that can be used across any number of devices. They’ve also resulted in it being exceptionally easy to delete images and videos that we want to keep: misplace your finger and they’re suddenly transported into the ether never to be seen again… or are they? Retrieve deleted images from your iPhone’s ‘Recently Deleted’ folder If you recently deleted an ...
Keeping on top of the latest tech can be an expensive endeavour, but whether we like it or not, the time will come for each of us to review whether our laptop is coming to the end of its life. It’s usually a big decision, too. Sure, it’s running slowly and it’s getting noisier, but do you have the money to buy a whole new one or would it be easier and cheaper to just repair and replace the components that have starte...
We’ve all been there and, whilst accidentally deleting files you wanted is certain to leave you feeling a little, well… underconfident, human error is still the most common cause of data loss. To put it another way, if you’ve deleted something you needed, don’t feel too bad: you aren’t the first and you certainly won’t be the last. What’s more, you can not only soothe your bruised ego with the knowledge that countles...
If you regularly peruse this blog you’ll know that we regularly discuss society’s looming data storage crisis and the fact that a multitude of organisations are seeking a solution.Currently, a number of potential solutions are being developed and we’ve discussed several of – such as DNA data storage, improved HDD densities, superior writing techniques etc. – on this blog. Now, there’s another alternative data storage...
On May of this year, General Data Protection Regulation (more commonly known as GDPR) came into effect. With the vast majority of businesses large and small utilising peoples’ data in some way, shape or form, there are few that won’t be affected, yet an alarmingly high number are unaware of how GDPR will alter their day-to-day practices or what they must do in order to ensure they’re compliant. Considering that the m...
We recently wrote about the need for storage media with greater storage capacities – focusing on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) techniques and how this results in HDDs that are capable of storing more data within standard formats. Today, we discuss another means of achieving this: Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR).Like Shingled Magnetic Recording, HAMR increases a hard drive’s storage density by increasing t...
RAID data recovery is a term that is regularly entered into search engines. Vitally, this serves to disprove the widespread and damaging myth that RAIDs are a sure-fire way of keeping vital data safe and are an unassailable means of preserving digital files. RAIDs can and do fail and, whilst they offer a degree of protection that will at times allow an IT professional to retrieve lost data without the need to enlist ...
Last week, we wrote about Western Digital’s latest HDD and the fact that, by utilising a unique way of writing data known as Shingled Magnetic Recording, it boasts the greatest storage capacity of any HDD in history – but how does this new writing technique work and, more importantly, why does it result in superior storage densities.All HDDs write data onto discs coated in magnetic materials, commonly referred to as ...
When you send your device off to us for your data to be recovered, you probably wonder exactly what goes on inside our lab. Fields Data Recovery has been operating for almost twenty years and in that time, we have completed over 150,000 diagnostics. We have an industry leading recovery rate of 92.5% and hundreds of glowing reviews from previous clients, and the reason we do what we do so well is down to our innovativ...