Understanding data loss
Seven articles on what actually happens inside a storage medium – written for people who have to decide, not for specialists.
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Seven topics, from clicking hard drives to backup strategy.
Hard drive clicking
Clicking, ticking, grinding, beeping: each noise stands for a different defect. What they mean and what you must not …
Read the article →SSD, TRIM and recovery
With an SSD, a defective drive is often better news than a working one. Why that is, and what follows from …
Read the article →RAID 5 failure
A RAID rarely fails all at once. It fails a second time – and what happens in between decides …
Read the article →Formatted drive
Formatting sounds final. In most cases it is not – provided nothing new has been written …
Read the article →What recovery costs
Between 150 and 2,000 euros – that range is not arbitrary. It reflects four factors that can be named …
Read the article →NAS failure: QNAP, Synology
A NAS is storage, not a backup. When the volume disappears, the copy everyone assumed existed usually goes with …
Read the article →Preventing data loss
Most of the cases that reach us would have been a footnote with a working backup. The obstacle is rarely the …
Read the article →Why this section exists
Most of the damage we see was avoidable – not through better equipment, but through knowing what to do in the first hour. A drive that clicks and is switched off has good prospects. The same drive after a day of copy attempts often does not.
These articles explain what is happening technically, without selling anything. If a case can be solved without a lab, that is said plainly.
Lost data? Every further start-up attempt can do harm.
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