Most modern portable hard disk drives use relatively new technology, first implemented in the early 2010s, called shingled magnetic recording (SMR) to write data to the platters. SMR can achieve higher areal density than the older method of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR, sometimes referred to as conventional magnetic recording or CMR) which simply means more […]
In this post we provide you with some useful insight to help determine what model Western Digital drive might be inside a particular model of enclosure. We have included pictures of the shell to help you identify these drives quicker when searching for a matching donor. If you have done some research you have probably […]
With cameras available to just about everyone all the time, most of us find ourselves needing more and more storage space for pictures and video. Sure, cloud storage is advertised almost everywhere now, but not everyone is ready to pay recurring fees to store their family photos, videos, and documents. That’s one reason spinning disk […]
While many predicted we would see the death of the hard disk drive by now, we keep seeing innovation from both Seagate and Western Digital. Let’s explore some interesting details you might not know. The number of bits that are stored in a specific area on a platter/disk is measured in terms of areal density, […]
One of the most popular hard disk drive families today is the Seagate Mobile series, often referred to by data recovery engineers as the Rosewood family. Over the past two years, we have seen Seagate Rosewood mobile drives become one of the most popular disk drives in the market, and in our hard drive recovery […]
Seagate hard drives are one of the most popular OEM devices today, so it’s no surprise that we see them almost every day in our data recovery lab. They are one of the most affordable brands for retail drives too, which adds to the number of Seagate data recovery cases we see each year. Over […]
As hard drive manufacturers look for new ways to cram more data in less space, we see innovations, but we also see new problems for data recovery. Some of the recent Western Digital SMR hard drives have incorporated new methods of translation to handle shingled magnetic recording (SMR). For an introduction, you can read this […]
This is just a partial list, by family name and number, of some of the Seagate hard drive models we have seen in our data recovery lab. A B C D G H J K L M P R S T V W Y Angsana 5400 – 76 ST500LT032-1E9142 Bacall – 59 ST1000VM002-1CT162 ST1000VM002-1ET162 ST1000VM002-9ZL162 […]
This is just a partial list, by family, of some of the Western Digital hard drive models we have seen in our data recovery lab. A B C D E F G H J K L M O P R S T V Z Apollo WD40EFRX-68N32N0 WD40EMRX-82UZ0N0 WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0 WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0 WD40EZRZ-75GXCB0 Aquarius (AQU) WD1000BEVS-00LAT0 WD1000BEVS-22LAT0 WD1200BEVS-00LAT0 […]