Category: FAQs

Question: In questions like this one and in websites everywhere it’s noted that SSDs use much less power than HDDs… usually citing ~2 W vs ~6 W for HDDs, my…

Question: Is it likely that a physical degradation of a hard disk could cause bits to ‘flip’ in file contents without the OS ‘noticing’ and telling you about it when…

Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? Are SSDs comparable to HDDs for reliability and is there published research on this? Also are all SSD manufacturers at a similar ‘reliability level’? Answer:…

Question: I’m planning to purchase a Crucial M4 256G SSD. There are 2 versions though, 7mm and 9.5mm, at the same price on Newegg.com My current laptop is 9.5mm SATA…

Question: So I had a client contact me about some data recovery. I told her I’d take a look. Well when the box arrived I saw my first microVAX 3500.…

Question: Recently in running chkdsk /r on my system drive (platter drive, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) I’ve gotten back “4 EA records processed” and “76 reparse records processed”. ?Am I…

Question: I’m trying to get data off a 2.5 inch hard drive from an old laptop (a Macintosh PowerBook Duo 230), the drive is model: WDS-2120 It looks like a…

Question: I have looked around, but cannot seem to find out why. On SATA drives (2.5 and 3″), there are variable lengths to the copper contacts on both the data…

Question: I have some older IDE (parallel ATA) hard drives I want to check for files before tossing them out. I have found SATA/IDE to USB Adapters to use, but…

Question: Most hard drives have a set of pins next to the pata or sata port to place jumpers to do things such as designating it a slave or master.…