July 20
Throwback to this fire-damaged server spotted in the lab. Disasters don’t have to mean data loss but fires definitely make recovery much more difficult.
Technology that suffers the wrath of a catastrophic event like a fire is not a pretty sight. There isn’t much of anything left in this server housing.
Tech devices are very susceptible to heat. Beyond external surfaces being burned and melted the layers of internal components, the hardware that is key to making data storage facilities work, is threatened by memory chips and circuits being damaged. Not always but often when recovery chances are higher in these extreme disaster cases it is because some of these components have escaped unscathed and reconstruction and rebuilding can take place to help the effort.
Sometimes the effects of disaster are too much for recovery. However, having a lab expert take a look is always worth it for any chance of helping put people’s lives and businesses back together.
Category: data recovery
Tags: burnt hard drive, disaster, fire-damaged, fires, photo, server