‘How much will it cost to recover the data on my hard drive?’ is undoubtedly the most common question Fields Data Recovery’s technicians receive. In spite of this, though, it’s also a question that can’t be answered accurately before we’ve had the opportunity to examine the drive. Yes, we can provide a ballpark figure but, as hard drives can fail for any number of reasons, the cause of the data loss must be identifie...
No one can deny that smartphones have had a significant effect on the way we create, consume and store our data and Fields Data Recovery now recover data from hundreds of iPhones etc. every year. Often, though, due to their relatively low storage capacities, users need to carefully select their most important files (their favourite music or video files, for example) which they will then afford a space in their phone’...
For anyone considering upgrading their PC, SSDs are undeniably an option worth considering. Their lack of moving parts means that they’re significantly quieter than HDDs, consume far less power and, most importantly of all, they’re significantly quicker than any alternative form of high-capacity storage media. As any one of our technicians specialising in SSD recovery will tell you, they're continousy growing in popu...
When a hard drive has suffered physical damage – whether due to a fall, electrical surge, mechanical failure or anything else – it does not necessarily mean that the data that you have stored on it is lost forever. Yes, it’s possible that the damage is so severe that your data is beyond retrieval but this is a lot less likely than you may think. If your hard drive has suffered physical damage, what you do after you’v...
Whilst we and many other commentators persistently advocate the importance of people and businesses regularly backing up their data in order to avoid damaging data loss, research consistently shows that most people are still failing to do so. Perhaps this stems from so many of us being blissfully unaware of the fact that storage media can and does fail? It could be because we’ve never considered just how valuable our...
We’re creating data at a truly astonishing rate; in fact, the amount of digital data in existence is currently doubling every two years (a claim supported by the number of hard drive recoveries we've completed year-on-year).This, it is widely agreed, is simply not sustainable. Whilst this means that many of us are finding our various device are being filled to the brim with data, it’s worth remembering that the vast ...
Thanks to improvements in mobile technologies, devices of all kinds are able to share information with one another seamlessly. Cars are one such device and, whilst the majority of cars currently on the road are not connected to the cloud, this is certain to change over the next few years. Manufacturers have adapted finance models to make their products more affordable and, perhaps more importantly, are becoming incre...
For the more casual technology-adopters amongst us the benefits of SSDs have been offset by their higher cost for several years now. They've certainly seen a steady rate of adoption if the number we're seeing on our data recovery lab is anything to go by, but their still not as onipresent as hard drives. According to the latest news, though, the superior loading times offered by these flash-based storage devices no l...
It’s one of those urban legends that simply refuses to die: ‘placing a failed hard in your freezer will make the drive functional for a short period of time thus allowing you to recover your data.’ Now, whilst this argument may be based partly on logic, it’s still not something we at Fields Data Recovery would recommend. Why? Because it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to work and is, in all probability, going to re...
At Fields Data Recovery, we regularly purchase second-hand hard drives for spare parts. Over the last few years, we’ve noticed that more and more of these devices still contain data created by their previous owners. Granted, the users have nearly always deleted their data and the problem is therefore caused by naivety rather than neglect, but this doesn’t change the fact that the personal information present on the d...