Data recovery articles #10

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

April 5, 2025

What Determines Clean-Room Data Recovery Cost?

See how hard-drive diagnosis, donor matching, controlled opening, imaging, file reconstruction and validation determine a recovery estimate.

March 2, 2025

A practical guide to identifying, reading, decoding and migrating magnetic tapes, cartridges and floppy disks without losing provenance.

February 11, 2025

See how optical storage is read, why CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs fail, and how recovered archive files are validated and migrated.

January 12, 2025

Understand how NAND, the SSD controller, firmware, FTL, TRIM, wear, encryption and power loss determine data recovery limits.