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> I’d be glad to be proven wrong. You are right. But almost nobody recovers data from a broken HDD other than personal computers and even then only in excepti
by lmilcin 5y ago
> I’d be glad to be proven wrong.
You are right.
But almost nobody recovers data from a broken HDD other than personal computers and even then only in exceptional circumstances. The best protection is still to have a backup. In my many years of work in IT I have never heard of any recovery from any drive other than a personal laptop (and that only once).
- perl4ever 5y agoI recall a drive that got "sticky". It would appear dead, but if you shook it clockwise and counterclockwise around the rotational axis, it would get "unstuck" and work again. I figured this out after the first time it happened, when I mailed it to be fixed and it was returned working but of course my data was wiped.
- rbanffy 5y agoAnother thing that seems to help is cooling the drive. https://youtu.be/99Sk2ZnjGQA https://youtu.be/99Sk2ZnjGQA
- rasz 5y agoHDD data recovery is a multi $billion/year business.
- lmilcin 5y agoCare to provide your source? Even assuming this is true, typical recovery is order or two of magnitude of the cost of the drive. So it is still small percentage of drives that receive any treatment in case of failure.
- rasz 5y agorandom google first result :) but checking few top recovery companies market cap they are all in the hundreds of millions range.
- lmilcin 5y agoYou understand there are a lot of different types of recoveries and the companies don't just recover HDD all day? Also market cap != amount of annual business
- rasz 5y agoIts enough to disprove your earlier assertion that >almost nobody recovers data from a broken HDD other than personal computers