What To Do After Dropping An External Hard Drive

You’ve dropped your external hard drive, and you’re worried that it might not work anymore. Now what? If the drive contains absolutely essential data, the best practice is to leave it powered off. Get it to a data recovery company...
January 2, 2019

Understanding Hard Drive Failure

Hard disk drive failure is ultimately unavoidable. Every hard drive uses mechanical parts, and even with modern innovations like helium-filled enclosures, every mechanical component will eventually fail as these mechanical parts wear out. However, proper operating conditions can extend the...
June 23, 2014

Winter Storms Can Cause Hard Drive Failures, Warns Datarecovery.com

January 11, 2014 – Edwardsville, IL – Several winter storms hit the Midwest this week, costing computer users millions of dollars in lost data according to DataRecovery.com, a world leader in professional hard drive recovery services. “We’ve already received a...
January 11, 2014