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A Reference Of Useful Terms And Phrases relating to data recovery


Just like most industries data recovery and IT in general have their own collection of phrases and terminology that can be quite confusing if you are unfamiliar with the industry.

From Data Recovery Software and Hardware to the descriptions of how storage devices fail.

We have put together a special section just for those looking to quest their thirst for knowledge.

The terminology section is built up from suggestions so please use the contact form if you would like a new term describing.

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Areal Density
Areal Density
What is Areal Density? Areal density is the number of bits per square inch of storage surface. Areal density is commonly used as a defining measure of potential storage density in hard drives. In...
Data Conversion Services
Data Conversion Services
Data migration requirement could arise for a number of different reasons but principally data migration or  data conversion is necessary when companies decide to change the way in which they...
Data Solutions UK Hard drive Repair
Data Solutions UK Hard drive Repair
Data Solutions UK was founded in 2007 and helped build  the first high capacity Data Recovery lab  in the UK to achieve IS0-3 clean room certification. ...
Data Solutions Uk Ltd Sheffield
Data Solutions Uk Ltd Sheffield
Data Solutions UK Established in 2007 the company is involved in  the repair and recovery of data from failed servers, hard drives and solid state storage devices. The company...
Degraded Drive
Degraded Drive
What is A Degraded Hard Drive? Hard drive failures account for nearly 40 percent of data recovery requirements and one aspect of drive failure is hard drive degradation. Essentially a hard drive...
Fragmented Hard Drive
Fragmented Hard Drive
What is A Fragmented Hard Drive? A hard drive consists of a number of different blocks and sectors and this is where your data is actually stored. When you write data to the drive rather than place...
Hard Drive Head Crash
Hard Drive Head Crash
Is A Head Crash Bad? Yes -  CALL Andy and the team at  R3 Data Recovery for a no obligation quote for HDD repair and recovery. Do not use any Data Recovery or Disc Disk...
Hard Drives Overheating
Hard Drives Overheating
Overheating computers are a sure way to test even the newest hard drive and a principal cause of hard drive degradation and seized motor spindles.   Even in the cleanest conditions and...
Online Data Backup
Online Data Backup
What is online backup? Anyone who uses or in particular works on a computer is going to need to understand about data backup, what it is, and why it is so important. When you backup your data, you...
Physical Drive Failures
Physical Drive Failures
Hard drive data recovery services tend to fall in the main into two very distinct categories which are often expressed as physical and logical. Physical categories just as the name implies...
Servers
Servers
What Is A Server? A computer which runs a server program and connects to a number of computer over a network is called a server.  CPU speed is not normally critical to a server, but high I/O...
Solid State Drives
Solid State Drives
What Is A Solid State Drive? Solid State Drives (SSD) are a storage medium for data which uses non-volatile NAND flash memory. And come in mainly three sizes :- 1.8 inch, 2.5 inch and 3.5...
USB Flash Drives
USB Flash Drives
What Is A USB Flash Drive? A USB flash drive is a storage device which currently holds between 64Mb and 64GB of data. The type of memory used is NAND flash memory and connects to the computer via...
What Are Bad Sectors
What Are Bad Sectors
Before trying to explain what is a bad sector it would be useful to understand what a sector is or how a drive is structured. In simplistic terms a drive platter or disk is divided into what is known...
What Is Data Recovery
What Is Data Recovery
What Is Data Recovery Data recovery is necessary when the secondary storage media on which data is stored has failed or the file system prevents it from being mounted by the operating...
Accidently Deleted Or Formatted Volumes Help
Accidently Deleted Or Formatted Volumes Help
Do you need Help Recovering From Accidently Deleted Or Formatted Volumes? Providing you storage device (hard drive, NAS, USB Stick, SD CARD, or SSD ) is not faulty R3Cover Data Recovery software ...
Apple Mac Time Capsule Data Recovery
Apple Mac Time Capsule Data Recovery
Get a fixed price quotation for the recovery of your data from a corrupted or failed Apple Time Capsule by calling 0800 999 3282 Apple’s Time Capsule is for many people a reliable form of...
Backing Up Your Data: Ignore It At Your Peril
Backing Up Your Data: Ignore It At Your Peril
Backing Up Your Data: Ignore It At Your Peril No one wants data loss, but of all the internet wired people I know, I have yet to meet one who has not, at some point, lost important data. This is...
Becoming a Data Recovery Partner or Reseller
Becoming a Data Recovery Partner or Reseller
For data recovery systems and software sales use the contact form below. There are many ways an IT support company can promote various services in the field of Data Recovery as part of its...
Calculating the failure rate of RAID 0
Calculating the failure rate of RAID 0
In the pursuit of a high performance Server, PC or Laptop we should consider carefully why RAID 0 (RAID Zero) should only be used if combined with a suitable backup solution . Anyone...
Can USB Data Recovery Be Recovered?
Can USB Data Recovery Be Recovered?
When you store important information on a USB device, you take the chance of losing that information. Losing data on a USB can be kind of a mystery, but there are companies out there that can help...
Chkdsk
Chkdsk
CHKDSK Warning never use Chkdsk.exe if you have lost data and suspect the drive to be degrading. Chkdsk (Chkdsk.exe) is a command-line tool that checks volumes for problems. The tool then...
Clicking Hard Drive
Clicking Hard Drive
My Drive Is Clicking What Should I Do? Hard drives can make a very interesting collection of noises depending on the problem and the make of the drive but invariably the prognosis is not good. If...
Data Recovery Expert
Data Recovery Expert
What is a data recovery expert and when should you use one? Although there are many people who may claim to do data recovery "the have a go heros"  who claim to be  data...
Data Recovery Methods
Data Recovery Methods
Sometimes, due to unforeseen occurrences, it may become necessary to recover information from your hard drive. For instance, you computer may encounter problems and you need to recover documents. In...
Data Recovery Searches
Data Recovery Searches
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Defragment Hard Drive
Defragment Hard Drive
How Do You Defragment A Hard Drive? Hard drive fragmentation is one of the prime causes of slow computers an a major contributor to unnecessary hard disk wear and tear and head usage. Unfortunately...
Failed Or Degraded Raid Arrays
Failed Or Degraded Raid Arrays
Failed or Degraded Raid Array? Use the contact form or call 0800 999 3282 to get help and advice with your RAID 5 recovery. Raid 5 is where data and parity information are spread...
Failed Or Degraded Raid Arrays Recovery
Failed Or Degraded Raid Arrays Recovery
What Is A Failed or Degraded Raid Array? Raid 5 is where data and parity information are spread across at least 3 disk drives of the same size and type. Raid systems are prone to the...
Guzik Spinstand
Guzik Spinstand
Spinstand by Guzik Many universities, research and development organisations and some data recovery companies use the Guzik Spinstand for R&D however its ability to perform any commercial data...
Hard Disk Drive
Hard Disk Drive
What Is A Hard Disk Drive? A hard disk drive is known as a hard drive, hard disk or fixed disk drive. Hard drives have platters with magnetic surfaces that rotate rapidly. Digitally encoded...
Hard Drive Fragmentation
Hard Drive Fragmentation
Is A Fragmented Drive Bad? Hard Drive Fragmentation - A partially fragmented hard drive in itself is not a severe problem but it will slow down the performance of both writes to and writes...
Hard Drive Platters
Hard Drive Platters
What Are Hard Drive Platters? A hard drive platter is essentially a disc made from aluminium or glass and ceramic substrate.  During the manufacturing process of the disc, a thin coating of...
Hard Drive Platters Pictures
Hard Drive Platters Pictures
What Are Hard Drive Platters? A hard drive platter is essentially a disc made from aluminium or glass and ceramic substrate.  During the manufacturing process of the disc, a thin coating of...
Hard Drive Repairs & Hard Drive Platters
Hard Drive Repairs & Hard Drive Platters
Why Certified Clean Rooms Are Essential For Hard Drive Repair A hard drive platter is essentially a disc made from aluminium or glass and ceramic substrate. During the manufacturing...
Hard Drive Speed
Hard Drive Speed
Are Larger Capacity Hard Drives Faster? Warning ! : Do not run data recovery software on any drive suspected of slowing down due to motor wear, electronic / firmware problems, physical...
Head Crash
Head Crash
What Happens When A Disk Head Crashes? A head crash can be one if not the most destructive of hard drive failures, but what happens when a disk head crashes? Inside your drive there are a number...
IPDRA
IPDRA
IPDRA -  International Professional Data Recovery Association For more information about IPDRA click the link here Both the IPDRA forum and the Data Recovery Blog have...
Istorage Diskgenie Version1 Certification Award
Istorage Diskgenie Version1 Certification Award
iStorage Limited iStorage diskGenie Version 1 DATE 2 nd August 2010 AUTHORISED BY THE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE CESG INFORMATION ASSURANCE ...
Logical Drive Failures
Logical Drive Failures
Data recovery jobs tend to fall into two distinct camps called logical and physical. The term physical is used to describe hard drive and media failures that can be classed as a mechanical failure...
Maxtor Hard Drives
Maxtor Hard Drives
Maxtor like many computer technology companies is relatively young and began its life in 1982 and was founded by James McCoy, Jack Swartz, and Raymond Niedzwiecki who notably where all ex IBM...
Protect Yourself Before Your Hard Drive Crashes
Protect Yourself Before Your Hard Drive Crashes
Protect Yourself Before Your Hard Drive Crashes Almost everyone who has used a computer has experienced a hard drive problem at some point. Are you prepared to lose your data? If your hard drive...
R3 Data Recovery Ltd
R3 Data Recovery Ltd
R3 Data Recovery Ltd  Data Recovery Companies in the UK . Providing a reliable and friendly data recovery service to resellers and partners throughout Europe by providing a...
R3coverchk Release Announced By Abc Data Recovery
R3coverchk Release Announced By Abc Data Recovery
R3Cover ® CHK release - The DRC Directory   Following the successful introduction of R3Cover Data Recovery software for Windows and Mac the team at abc Data Recovery Ltd are developing...
Raid 0 Recovery
Raid 0 Recovery
RAID 0 recovery Description As RAID 0 arrays, sometimes referred to as striped arrays or striped volumes are not true RAID as there is no redundancy.  In RAID 0 the data is...
Ruggedized Hard Drives
Ruggedized Hard Drives
Ruggedized hard drives . Computer systems of one shape or form are utilised in a number of different areas and although most of us will be familiar with our desktop or laptop computer systems...
Seagate Data Recovery
Seagate Data Recovery
Need help recovering your data from a failed or faulty Seagate Hard Drive ? Firmware or physical fault. Seized Spindle Degradation File Corruption Call a seagate data recovery expert for a fixed...
Seagate Hard Drives
Seagate Hard Drives
Seagate was first founded in 1979 by Alan Shugart and Finis Conner and was originally called Shugart Technology and the companies first product was a 5mb hard disc which proved very popular at the...
Search Terms For Data Recovery
Search Terms For Data Recovery
Do you need help with lost data, damaged memory stick, failed hard disk repair or a degraded Raid Array  ?  Get free advice and information from R3 Data Recovery   - ...
SSD Utility Suite™
SSD Utility Suite™
LC Technology solves TRIM related issues for SSD’s, introduces “SSD Utility Suite™” Nottingham, United Kingdom –1st June, 2010 — LC Technology International ,...
Understanding Linux Data Backup And Recovery
Understanding Linux Data Backup And Recovery
Linux provides numerous options for configuring storage, such as Logical Volume Management (LVM), Software RAID (metadisks), and many various filesystem types. After a full system failure, recovering...
What Is a San
What Is a San
What is a SAN? Storage solutions tend to come with a variety of acronyms and unless you work in the IT industry these can sometimes be a bit confusing to say the least. SAN stands for...
What is Data Deduplication
What is Data Deduplication
What Is Data Deduplication? In any IT infrastructure over time a business will generate a huge amount of duplicate data in the form of e-mails, word files, presentations and so on. Whilst...
What Is Hard Drive Smart
What Is Hard Drive Smart
What Does Smart Do? Data on a hard disk is stored in a magnetised layer effectively on one of the drives internal platters. The internal platters are extremely sensitive and due to a number of...
What is NAS
What is NAS
What is NAS? NAS stands for network attached storage (not to be confused with SAN which is an external storage network). Unlike SAN NAS units are physically attached to a local network and are...
Why Do Hard Drive Sectors Go Bad
Why Do Hard Drive Sectors Go Bad
We all like to think of the good old days when all mechanical devices where over engineered and sometimes lasted a life time (and beyond) but hard drive do have a limited life expectancy and this...
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While Dell and EMC may not be parting best of friends after ending their 10-year relationship two
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Making use of its acquisition of Pancetera Software in June, as well as hardware it announced a few
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BlueStripe Software wants to answer the question of why apps have performance problems with the new
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VMware, Inc. is announcing three major launches; a revamped VMware vCenter Operations and two new
Tue Oct 18 15:00:00 GMT 2011
With spending on data-center hardware recovering and expected to grow to $98.9 billion this year
Tue Oct 18 12:00:00 GMT 2011
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In this case, the unstoppable
Tue Oct 18 11:12:00 GMT 2011
In its fall storage announcement, IBM continued to emphasize the efficiency of its storage
Mon Oct 17 23:24:00 GMT 2011
In 1996, IBM purchased Tivoli Systems to bolster its systems and network management capabilities.
Mon Oct 17 18:00:00 GMT 2011
EMC's Ionix UIM/Provisioning software is getting a facelift for the VCE Vblock platform. The
Mon Oct 17 15:30:00 GMT 2011
IBM said that it is adding predictive analytics capabilities to its lineup of enterprise business
Mon Oct 17 13:45:00 GMT 2011
I am as tired of the whole "cloud" blitz as you are. But I can assure you that someone will ask you
Mon Oct 17 12:54:00 GMT 2011
OS33 has announced its OS33 Cloud Drive, which enables MSP clients to offer their users a
Fri Oct 14 17:26:00 GMT 2011
I outlined the case for orchestration. Now I want to answer "Why now? What's different?" After all,
Fri Oct 14 17:12:00 GMT 2011
Microsoft and HP announced on Thursday the November availability of the HP Enterprise Database
Fri Oct 14 16:34:00 GMT 2011
As more and more Internet-enabled devices find their way onto company networks, the task of
Wed Oct 19 18:00:00 GMT 2011
While Dell and EMC may not be parting best of friends after ending their 10-year relationship two
Wed Oct 19 15:00:00 GMT 2011
Making use of its acquisition of Pancetera Software in June, as well as hardware it announced a few
Wed Oct 19 12:00:00 GMT 2011
BlueStripe Software wants to answer the question of why apps have performance problems with the new
Tue Oct 18 19:41:00 GMT 2011
VMware, Inc. is announcing three major launches; a revamped VMware vCenter Operations and two new
Tue Oct 18 15:00:00 GMT 2011
With spending on data-center hardware recovering and expected to grow to $98.9 billion this year
Tue Oct 18 12:00:00 GMT 2011
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? In this case, the unstoppable
Tue Oct 18 11:12:00 GMT 2011
In its fall storage announcement, IBM continued to emphasize the efficiency of its storage
Mon Oct 17 23:24:00 GMT 2011
In 1996, IBM purchased Tivoli Systems to bolster its systems and network management capabilities.
Mon Oct 17 18:00:00 GMT 2011
EMC's Ionix UIM/Provisioning software is getting a facelift for the VCE Vblock platform. The
Mon Oct 17 15:30:00 GMT 2011
IBM said that it is adding predictive analytics capabilities to its lineup of enterprise business
Mon Oct 17 13:45:00 GMT 2011
I am as tired of the whole "cloud" blitz as you are. But I can assure you that someone will ask you
Mon Oct 17 12:54:00 GMT 2011
OS33 has announced its OS33 Cloud Drive, which enables MSP clients to offer their users a
Fri Oct 14 17:26:00 GMT 2011
I outlined the case for orchestration. Now I want to answer "Why now? What's different?" After all,
Fri Oct 14 17:12:00 GMT 2011
Microsoft and HP announced on Thursday the November availability of the HP Enterprise Database
Fri Oct 14 16:34:00 GMT 2011
As more and more Internet-enabled devices find their way onto company networks, the task of
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