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Looks like DeepSpar has a new more automated and less expensive tool coming out soon. www.rapidspar.com 4Iy9NQqC9Dg I hope this won't cut too much into the easy jobs when IT guys start getting a hold of them.

Is there anyone here who's a pro at understanding the mdadm --examine reports? Here's what I'm getting from the members of the array (each page is a different drive) Some things seem obvious: RAID 5 64Kb Stripe Size It looks to me like /dev/sdh went offline first. But, what's confusing to...

The latest R-Studio build for Debian Linux is completely broken!!!! Do not update to it to version 3.9.1878 under any circumstances. Whenever it refreshes the device list (such as when you try to build a virtual RAID) all the devices just disappear and you can't do anything. It's completely...

Here's sampling of the project I'm working on to be able to definitively determine the two drive sets for RAID 50 arrays. All you have to do is find a sector that every drive in the array has data, and pull a sample byte from the same location on each drive (probably good to pull several sets...

Here's a little excel tool I built to convert Seagate date codes into actual dates: Hope it helps someone who's having difficulty understanding how the code works. The basic formula is: First Two Digits = Year (E.G. 08 = 2008 However it's the fiscal year starting the first Saturday in July...

I'm just curious, this isn't a case I'm dealing with or anything like that. Has anyone ever made any progress toward being able to rebuild NVRAM for ARM series drives if the original PCB is lost? It's never come up here yet, but just in case I'd like to know if it's even possible.

I just noticed this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/18 ... o_seagate/ Hard to believe that any senior manager at WD would be jumping over to Seagate of all companies. Especially given the issues they are having and the great stock growth that WD is having. Maybe he knows...

Does anyone else ever seem to find Seagates (especiall DM's) that after a headswap will ID once, work very slowly, and then never will power on again until you replace heads again. I've had quite a number of cases like this, a few I even replaced the heads multiple times and it just kept...

Anyone have any suggestions about the layout of the forum, it's categories, etc.? I want it to be as user friendly as possible while still keeping things organized in a way that makes sense. Please tell me if anything is annoying you and would be better if changed around.

I'm currently in the process of building a rather complex Excel sheet that can brute force XOR groups of numbers using every possible combination of drives to separate lists of HEX values. The concept is that you can take a random sample of a HEX value from the same location of each drive in a...

Here's a funny classic old video about the earliest of hard drives. USJGui9yIuA

Samsung has slated the release of a 2.5" form factor 16Tb SSD. http://www.extremetech.com/computing/21 ... ew-3d-nand This looks like it's intended to the the new HDD killer. I'm sure the cost will be prohibitive at first as it's intended for enterprise usage, but as others follow it'll become...

I'm currently working on a RAID 50 that used this controller which failed. I'm ordering one just so I can play with it's settings to see, but until it arrives I'm wondering if anyone can help point me in the right direction about its default stripe size, parity delay (if any), etc. It's a big...

I just spend several hours trying to figure out how to install R-Studio in a build of Debian Linux and having a heck of a time getting it to work. I kept getting the error: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I...

I'm just curious what other labs do when customers ask for HIPPA compliance when handling data recovery projects. We've always just handled it by keeping the station off network, cloning everything onto a single drive so nothing gets stored on the local machine at all, and not going back on...

I've tried twice now to write a ROM code to this PCB 100687658 REV C and it's just not taking. It goes through the whole process which takes about 10 minutes, but at the end it's still the donor ROM code on there, not the patient ROM I'm trying to write to it. I've tried it at two different...

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting really sick of these crypt-o-wall and similar viruses showing up. They are just a huge waste of time, you commit a system to scanning a drive for hours, just to get back a few useless old files. The customer is never happy with the result, so you...

Please excuse what might be a noob question here, I'm still new to DDI 4. It seems to work fine if I start imaging from the beginning, pause it, resume it, etc. But, if I attempt to image by Bitmap and it turns out there isn't one available to image from, when I go to resume the card just...

Looks like Seagate's budget cuts have struck again. This time it's a security bug that allows root access to the storage via WiFi and can even allow the attackers to download files. If you've got one of these, make sure you upgrade the firmware. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/903500 To quote...

Wow, I just saw this article: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/asu ... in-brazil/ Seems that Asus has a phone coming out with 256Gb of memory. That will be quite the data recovery project someday.