Another lab option in Europe - PCLab . They are also reputable and affordable.

None of those tools are designed for unsticking heads from platters. If you are in Europe, depending on where you are, there are many reputable and affordable professional labs to choose from. The first to come to mind is PCImage in the UK. If you securely package your hard drive in a box with lots ...

Source: ST10000DM0004 Destination: ST10000DM0004 dd - 247MB/s dd.jpg PC3K-Portable (direct) - 238MB/s PC3K-Portable-Direct.jpg MRT - 220MB/s MRT-Ultra.jpg PC3K-Portable (USB) - 190MB/s PC3K-Portable-USB.jpg RapidSpar - 144MB/s RapidSpar.jpg PC3K-Express - 130MB/s PC3K-Express.jpg * Assuming that PC...

For us to help, you really should provide details about what the model of drive you need to have recovered. A few generic thoughts, based on the idea of unsticking heads with DIY. 1. you really should inspect the heads and platters under a microscope after you remove them 2. you should not power the...

It is nice when the research of the past helps pave the way for future cases. Just did one today, this time the brand was a Kingston SMSR150S3/128G which turns out to be 2 x 64GB SSDs setup in a RAID 0. Mirrored one half with a standard mSATA adapter, mirrored the other half with my modified mSATA a...

You would ask the client for it...just like a bit locker key, they need to save at time of creation.

The underlying issue on one I encountered was the network settings went stupid. You can hold the reset button down on the NAS long enough for it to reset the network settings back to DHCP...that may be all you need.

I just looked at the link you sent and it seems like they are describing the setup where they use a SQL database to replicate the file system. This, too, is supported with the latest version of UFS Explorer.

The last unit I had was encrypted with LUKS. The client didn't pay attention to the message to save the key. The only way to recover the data was for me to fix the unit with my clone, load it up in the web interface, make the shares open to me on my network, then copy the files over the network to t...

Cool. Thanks for sharing.