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 ...
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...
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...
‘How much does it cost to recover data?’ is one of the most common questions Fields Data Recovery’s staff are asked. In fact, it’s likely that each individual public-facing member of staff is asked it at least once each day! Sadly, this is a question that cannot be answered with any reasonable degree of accuracy before an engineer has analysed the drive, diagnosed it and determined both the problem and solution. A qu...
With the weather getting warmer, many of us will be making a beeline for the beach. Our phones will inevitably go with us in order to capture that perfect family portrait or, possibly, a selfie with friends. Whilst the reasons for taking our phones to the beach are obvious, it’s not a particularly tech-friendly environment. Sand can clog up small entry points, mobile devices don’t usually like the heat and last but b...