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Has anyone else noticed or been interested by these braille looking dot patterns under the PCB of modern HGST drives? These two pictures are from two drives with exactly the same specs right down to the date. The only difference is the serial number. Anyone have any idea how to read this code?

So I've been playing around with the compressed image format of the new DE version. But, I'm finding that while compressing areas that are full of data, the speed is dropping from 120Mb/s (in the blank areas) to around 50-60Mb/s when it's full of data. I see my i5 CPU is hitting around 95%...

So I'm trying to do some pre-emptive investigation toward being able to recover bitcoin wallet files. Specifically from the bitcoin core program that was used by the early bitcoin miners. It's not looking terribly difficult to write a custom xml for R-Studio to scan for them, but I'm not...

So I just saw this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughli ... 112f166b61 Looks like Toshiba will soon be shipping out 14Tb helium-filled 9 platter drives! That's right 9 platters, 18 heads, and full of Helium. It's not an SMR which I suppose is good news. According to another...

I managed to round up a lot of them, and what I'm finding doesn't look promising for my case anyway. Seems ones that use the same encryption as this one typically look like this: Full to the end with data, as you can see. However, all copies of my client's key (both in SA and key sector)...

So I finally received one of these older WD My Passports that's asking for a password when the owner swears one was never set. I've checked both copies of module 25 as well as the key sector and they match exactly. I'm hoping to figure out what is flagging the drive to think it has a password...

So anyone who tried browsing to the forum/website earlier today probably was greeted with either an SSL/Unreachable error or if you came at the right time may have actually eneded up on a wedding planning site. :D Rest assured, it was just a screw up by my hosting company. I have a few...

Oh, wait...it's 1001 now... too bad, I missed my chance to create the 1000th one....

So what have you guys been using for these new WD30NPVX and WD40NPZZ series of drives that don't have any DCM code and often don't even have a date on them? Just going with the closest serial number you can find? Got one here now that I suspect will need heads, but they sure don't give you...

I just saw this page: https://starcraft2.com/en-us/#free-to-play If I disappear from the world for a few months, you'll know where I'm at.

I'm afraid I won't be adding your company. If you want to know why, see the picture below: Any company making such outlandish claims doesn't meet my criteria of being upfront and honest with people.

I'd like to start a list of "recommended companies" here for when we get people online looking for a company in their part of the world. So, for example right now I'm talking with a guy online who needs a company with PC-3000 SSD in Brazil and I can't think of anyone in that area of the world I...

So this case fascinated me today. Seagate drive arrives for data recovery that was previously at Salvage Data who deemed it "unrecoverable" and cited "platter damage" as the reason. However, on inspecting the drive, I find absolutely no indication that it was ever opened. The top label is...

Has anyone else had this happen? Suddenly VNR software just acts like it completely doesn't see my VNR reader. I hear the usual Windows notification noise when I plug the reader into the computer, but VNR just acts like it's not connected. I've done all the usual stuff like remove and...

So this is something I've never seen before. I was giving a second look at a case for another lab, since he thought he was going crazy. Now, I'm pretty sure I'm going crazy as well after seeing what I saw. The drive is a Pinclite 320Gb drive. Has bad modules on both SA copies, but all the...

So I got in a drive that was previously at another lab, who'd already attempted head swap unsuccessfully (I won't name them here). I didn't really feel like wasting a perfectly good drive from my stock, so I devised this test method to see whether it was even a good candidate for recovery...

Is the forum unusually slow at loading pages today compared with usual or is it just for me? I've been messing around with my network and all the sudden this form seems to be loading really slowly with about a 4-5 second delay between page loads.

So I've got this really frustrating Moose family Seagate I'm fighting with today. Model: ST31000340NS Original symptoms: Spins up, sounds like a normal bit of accessing at first (nothing in terminal shows up) Then it starts clicking (still nothing in terminal). After about 40-50 clicks it...

So just in case, you haven't ever noticed this phenomenon, I figure I'll just post the warning here. It's something I've known for some time, but just had myself reminded of it again this morning when I messed up. If you read an Hitachi/HGST drive using the read by utility function of DE, then...

So I tried out a demo of a program (FileMinimizer Suite) that worked really well for removing file slack left over from RAW recovery results. You know, those cases where you've got jpegs that for some unknown reason carve out at 500Mb when they should be just a couple MB. The program works...