Stranger Data – the Stranger Things We See in the Lab for Recovery

May 30, 01:01 pm

Stranger Data – the Stranger Things We See in the Lab for Recovery

At CBL we’ve seen odd hard drives, and some stranger things, too.

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Stories From The Lab: Hospital RAID Array ER Recovery

Mar 18, 01:16 pm

Stories From The Lab: Hospital RAID Array ER Recovery

Listen to a short story from the CBL lab: a hospital RAID crashes and IT department calls in the CBL data recovery experts. We also discuss the rising data protection challenges in healthcare IT.

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Heads and Tales: Rescuing Data for Environmentalists Rescuing the Rainforest

Apr 21, 04:48 am

Heads and Tales: Rescuing Data for Environmentalists Rescuing the Rainforest

Through the research efforts of the individuals who make the Durika Reserve home as well as the visitors to the community each year, a vast array of previously unknown or recorded findings has been collected for five years on the flora and fauna which also make Durika their home.

While a self-sustainable community that uses alternative energy sources, its members do leverage select modern technologies including a laptop computer upon which are stored the images of the flora and fauna captured by researchers and visitors. When Eugenio García López, biologist and ecologist with Fundación Durika, could not access the files on his laptop’s hard drive, he felt despair.

“The photographs contained on the damaged external hard drive represented hundreds of hours and research of biologists in the rainforest or photographs taken while hiking through dense, virgin jungle where no one probably has ever been before.”

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CBL Pictures: Submerged

Aug 24, 05:45 am

CBL Pictures: Submerged

wet water-submerged hard drive NAS device headed to recovery at CBL Data Recovery You wouldn’t expect this situation to come up, but then again, most (many?) data loss disasters aren’t expected. We see natural disasters involving tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, heavy storms and the resulting water-damaged hard drives, burnt computers, and power-outage crashed hard disks….. but it’s the odd ones that come along every so often that get us.

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CBL Pictures: Pieces of You

Apr 16, 06:10 am

CBL Pictures: Pieces of You

Pieces of You 1 - shattered hard disk platter in case

When we got this drive by regular mail with little padding we were a little worried. Being able to hear pieces moving around freely within the hard drive is never a good sign.

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