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HotSwap obstacles for Seagate Barracuda II and Barracuda 7200.7 drives

HotSwap is a popular method used for data recovery in case of problems with HDD service area. Essentially, it means replacement of a PCB on recipient drive with an initialized PCB from a donor drive. The HotSwap mechanism encounters certain...

 

Data Recovery Clean Room Technician Specialist Is Required

Data recovery clean room engineers are now becoming more and more popular due to the cases data recovery companies receive are more and more physical damage involved. When your drives dropped from the desks, or your laptops fall to the floor...

 

Barracuda drives’ PCB swap

HDD malfunctions are frequently caused by damage to drive controller board. In order to restore access to user data on the drive, you have to install a functional board from another drive of the same family using an identical firmware version. With...

 

Fix hard drive detected as slave only

The problem can be caused by a short circuit on PCB or a spindle controller malfunction. One contact of the Master jumper is connected to the ground circuit, the other is linked through a resistor array to pin 59 of the SH6950 spindle controller...

 

The 5th Generation Data Recovery Hardware Solutions

SalvationDATA, the world’s leading data recovery equipment and solutions provider, announced the new and best data recovery equipment—The 5th Generation Data Recovery Hardware Solutions, significantly increasing your potential clients, revenues...

 

Seagate Identification of parameters for SA objects

When you are going to use PC3k in its command mode to repair Segate hard drives, you need to find the following information useful to indentify the parameters for SA objects. Information in this section is necessary when automatic identification...

 

Self Test in Seagate drives

Self Test in Seagate drives performs adjustment of adaptive drive settings and scans disk surfaces detecting and reassigning revealed defects. It works as a very sophisticated tool because a large part of factory diagnostics and HDD fine-tuning...

 

How to Test Seagate Drives’ Heads for HDD Repair

The following procedure should be used to test the Seagate drives’ heads for HDD repair and you may need to use some professional hdd repair tools or data recovery tools. If a drive hangs at startup, perform the first part: *  Switch...

 

4 Ways to Maintain Data Integrity Of Enterprise-class Flash SSDs

* Error Correction Code (ECC), which protects against read errors as a result of hardware errors in the flash memory. The drive controller monitors the read process and is able to correct hardware read errors up to a certain level. When successful...

 

Seagate drive common failures and hdd repair solutions review

Seagate drive common failures and hdd repair solutions review

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