Seagate F3 Family Lookup

by Oct 16, 2018

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 […]

Week 2017-1022 in the Lab

by Oct 30, 2017

You may have noticed that I don’t share specifics for a lot of flash recovery cases. Although we recover numerous flash drives every week, many of the USB recoveries involve bent/broken connectors or the pads have been torn or ripped off the PCB. In those cases we replace the connector or reconstruct the path with […]

Western Digital Head Swap – WD Donor Drives

by Sep 25, 2017

On modern Western Digital hard drives it is not usually difficult to find a compatible WD donor for a head swap case. Use the following information at your own expense/risk. Typically you try to match the full model number (e.g. WD20EARX-22PASB0), the TJ, VJ, T2, V2 in the DCM code, and get a close date. […]

ST2000DM001 – Once Again We Beat DriveSavers

by Aug 22, 2017

At Blizzard we continue to prove that we can save customers some serious money. This past week we received two Seagate ST2000DM001 hard drives from a QNAP NAS box. The drives were configured RAID-1 which means they were a mirrored pair.  When working properly both drives are a mirror image of each other so they […]

SM3257EN 4GB USB Flash Recovery

by May 14, 2017

This is an example of a recent recovery we did at Blizzard Data Recovery. In this case the USB flash drive had been broken in half. Some cases are just a matter of replacing the broken connector, testing for shorts or open circuits, and then recovering the data. Although that doesn’t sound too difficult we […]

About Blizzard Data Recovery

by Feb 29, 2016

Blizzard Data Recovery is a family run business. We are dedicated to providing professional and affordable data recovery services. David Blizzard has been providing tech services to personal and business customers since 1995. Meet the Blizzards, Clint, Kyle, Amy, David. For many years David was providing logical hard drive data recovery services in Georgia using […]