Data recovery articles #9

Technical guides on data loss prevention, storage failures and controlled data recovery methods.

2 March 2025

Magnetic Media: Archive Recovery and Its Limits

How tapes, floppy disks and other magnetic archives are identified, read safely, decoded and migrated without losing their order or context.

11 February 2025

How CD, DVD and Blu-ray reading works, which defects limit optical data recovery, and why validated archives should be migrated.

12 January 2025

How SSD architecture affects data recovery: NAND, controller, firmware, FTL, TRIM, wear, encryption and sudden power loss.