http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter Hard drive recovery data recovery resource center with how to guides for windows RAID Snap server file system repair NTFS partition recovery tools tips and tricks to recover data Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:48:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/04/hard-drive-review-western-digital-1tb-comparison/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/04/hard-drive-review-western-digital-1tb-comparison/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:13:56 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1809 Ok so this drive is part of the “green” series of ECO-Friendly drives they are making now. The cost you pay for being friendly with the environment is a hit to performance. The drive is by no means a HIGH PERFORMANCE hard drive. It is perfect for storing data that you just want and do [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2011/03/04/hard-drive-review-western-digital-1tb-comparison/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/06/western-digital-kicks-it-up-a-notch-with-new-high-speed-solid-state-drives/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/06/western-digital-kicks-it-up-a-notch-with-new-high-speed-solid-state-drives/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:41:39 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=1453 Western Digital announced they will be shipping A new line of 2.5 inch SSD’s called the WD SiliconDrive®. The new drives will be superior if OEM embedded application such as in an automobile. Offer extreme read write speed allows for the drive to work perfectly in a multitude of applications, from the standard home user [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2010/10/06/western-digital-kicks-it-up-a-notch-with-new-high-speed-solid-state-drives/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:24:48 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=883 And in this corner… The hard drive Storage Wars have been heating up lately as Western Digital and Seagate battle it out for not only the largest capacity disks, but they are also going green! Western Digital went as far as to name it’s new 2TB hard drive the  Caviar Green series. Before I get [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2009/02/10/storage-wars-hard-drives-reach-2tb/feed/ 2 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/12/02/external-hard-drive-data-recovery-review-seagate-freeagent-pro/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/12/02/external-hard-drive-data-recovery-review-seagate-freeagent-pro/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:21:29 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=822 When looking at external hard drives, most reviewers only look at capacity, pricing and performance. DTI Data Recovery looks at these things, but has a focus on the stability of the external hard drive and its ability to withstand heat and not need hard drive recovery. The Seagate FreeAgent Pro is a FireWire400, USB 2.0, [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/12/02/external-hard-drive-data-recovery-review-seagate-freeagent-pro/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:00:38 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=582 This is the first article in a series that will explain how hard drives work, why they fail and what you as users can do to protect your data. When looking at hard drives the first step is to identify what it’s form factor is. Simply put, the form factor is the size of the hard [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/10/09/hard-drive-form-factors-explained/feed/ 11 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/western-digital-hard-drive-pricing/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/western-digital-hard-drive-pricing/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:49:25 +0000 DTI Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=482 We are asked all the time which are the best hard drives to use? Since we are a hard drive recovery company we get to see all the major hard drives up close and personal. While there are certainly some hard drives that we see more often, that is more because of their saturation of [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/29/western-digital-hard-drive-pricing/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:49:08 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/?p=241 The next machine with a bad hard drive was my server. This server has been running as a server in our home for about 8 years. HAH! Now that is not to say that we haven’t done upgrades, because we have. We have always kept the “data” area of the drive separate and even though [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/09/19/when-good-raids-go-bad-a-technicians-worst-nightmare/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/03/fujitsu-mhz2-bt-hard-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/03/fujitsu-mhz2-bt-hard-drive/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:24:41 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/03/the-fujitsu-mhz2-bt-500-gb-hard-drive/ Ok here is another review of a new Fujitsu hard drive from my personal fave in hard drive manufacturers. This is really kind of awesome, a 2.5” half terabyte drive. I don’t know how you can go wrong with that. It only uses minimal power, 1.8W for read write, because of the Fujitsu’s Green Policy [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/03/03/fujitsu-mhz2-bt-hard-drive/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/25/western-digital-my-passport-essential-usb-drive/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/25/western-digital-my-passport-essential-usb-drive/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:19:54 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/25/western-digital-my-passport-essential-usb-drive-a-sleek-new-portable/ I think I have mentioned before that Western Digital is one of my favorite hard drive manufacturers. I was reading around on the Internet today and came across this. It is really a sweet little portable drive. With a max capacity of 320Gb and only weighing in at 5 ounces it is an awesome answer [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/25/western-digital-my-passport-essential-usb-drive/feed/ 7 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/20/maxtor-shared-storage-central-axis/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/20/maxtor-shared-storage-central-axis/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:52:54 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/20/maxtor-shared-storage-ii-and-the-release-of-central-axis/ So in an effort to make our data available to us from anywhere Maxtor/Seagate has come up with a really cool idea. The Maxtor Shared Storage II line, which comes in 500 GB and 1 TB, now has the ability to allow users to log into a safe Internet browser site and gain access to [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/20/maxtor-shared-storage-central-axis/feed/ 1 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/14/seagate-momentus-hard-drive-recovery-review/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/14/seagate-momentus-hard-drive-recovery-review/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:09 +0000 Jacqui Best http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/14/seagate-momentus-hard-drive-recovery-review/ The Seagate Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive recovery review. At the end of January, Seagate started shipping the much talked about Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive. This drive is the newest in a line of laptop hard drives they have been developing. It uses a second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Which means instead of storing the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2008/02/14/seagate-momentus-hard-drive-recovery-review/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/15/gateway-laptop-notebook-hard-drive-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/15/gateway-laptop-notebook-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:50:33 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/15/gateway-laptop-notebook-hard-drive-data-recovery/ Like Dell, Gateway is a laptop /computer manufacturer that uses other companies hard disk drives. They don’t make their own so they rely on buying hard drives in bulk. While Gateway has many types of laptops for business and pleasure it is hard to determine without opening the laptop which hard drive is inside. If [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/15/gateway-laptop-notebook-hard-drive-data-recovery/feed/ 0 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:43:34 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/ There are many laptop manufacturers who use Hitachi laptop hard disk drives. You can find them in Dell and Sony’s to name just a couple. As you are probably aware, Hitachi purchased IBM’s hard disk drive division in 2002. I remember the date well since it was on my birthday June 4th. Hitachi kept the [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/27/hitachi-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/feed/ 10 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/23/dell-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/23/dell-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:59:57 +0000 Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/23/dell-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/ Our continuing series on laptop hard drives and what makes them tick (hopefully not click), beats on with a look at Dell laptop hard drives. Dell doesn’t make their own hard drives they rely on other companies products. I personally own 2 Dell computers, a notebook, and a desktop. I went with them because of [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/23/dell-laptop-hard-drive-data-recovery/feed/ 12 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/17/toshiba-laptop-hard-drive-recovery-failed-bearings/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/17/toshiba-laptop-hard-drive-recovery-failed-bearings/#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 23:12:04 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/17/toshiba-laptop-hard-drive-recovery-failed-bearings/ Toshiba laptop drives MK, GAS, or GAX most common reason for failure is due to the bearings seizing within the hard disk drive. The spindle motor and the bearings within the hard drive are getting stuck. This is one of the most common reasons for Toshiba laptop hard drive recovery. When the motor seizes, the heads [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/17/toshiba-laptop-hard-drive-recovery-failed-bearings/feed/ 42 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/08/hard-drives-failure-why/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/08/hard-drives-failure-why/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:01:31 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/08/hard-drives-failure-why/ Hard disk drives will always and ultimitely FAIL! Even with all the new technologies that arise such as perpendicular recording, the most basic element of hard drives, their ability to store data, is a lost cause. Faced with the daunting task of working on a technology destined to fail, hard drive manufacturers have to overcome [...]

]]> http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/02/08/hard-drives-failure-why/feed/ 8 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/01/27/hard-drive-failure-heat/ http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/01/27/hard-drive-failure-heat/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:13:31 +0000 Victoria Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/01/27/hard-drive-failure-heat/ A few months ago I bought an internal thermometer for my computer. I was told by Malcolm our hard drive recovery engineer that the most common reason for hard disk failure was heat. I was shocked to find the internal temperature of my machine was 120 degrees! How did it get so hot? When it [...]

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