Being the do-it-yourself Aussie is ideal for many kinds of problem solving… but what do you really know about Data Recovery? To illustrate this point, let’s look at something we all think we know enough about like cars.

Most people have a better idea of what could be wrong with their car that breaks down than when their server or computer flashes blue screens of death, goes on the fritz, frys or smokes. We know that mechanics fix cars because they know where to isolate problems quickly, they understand the mechanics intimately, have many expensive tools to effectively do their jobs and have a lot of experience fixing the same or similar problems to your car troubles. So too do Data Recovery experts about your computer hard disks, servers or Raid devices.

What would be the point of trying then to fix your car yourself or pay the lowest bidder to try and fix it for you? In 90% of DIY cases like this whether it is a car or a computer hard drive, the operative word “try” implies a limited degree of success which shrinks as the complexity of the task increases. This all sounds like common sense doesn’t it? One would think so but for some reason, this same, sound logic is not applied to the often more complex and costly risks of applying effective and professional Data Recovery services to retrieve vital and often irreplaceable data and information.

Data Detect is Australia’s premier Data Recovery service provider and there are some VERY good reasons why you should consider at the very least contacting them to find out what your data recovery options are. Some great reasons include that you’ll:

3.5” hard disk drive head Data being recovered from faulty

Get a Free Assessment by a trained and experienced Data Detect technician. A friendly Data Detect technician will very quickly be able to tell you what the potential problem(s) are and whether or not they can help you with your Data Recovery requirements. This can be performed often in minutes compared with the hours and days (and possibly never) that you would have taken trying to identify yourself. Enjoy this expert advice and fast problem identification free of charge. Get back to your work while the Data Detect professionals do theirs. By employing the expert experience, advice and services of Data Detect you’ll be able to get back to work with the peace of mind that you now have the very best chance of retrieving your data without the risk and time required to try and do it yourself. Enjoy a speedy recovery. Data Detect will recover as much of your data as possible in record time - often days or even weeks faster than any other method, software or amateur can equal. If it’s physically and programmatically possible to recover your data, Data Detect will do it. Feel secure with a No Recovery / No Pay Policy. In the rare case where a data recovery is not possible, you are not liable to pay a cent for Data Detect’s efforts and time. Then you’ll know that everything that is possible has been done to retrieve your data without there being any cost or time loss to you in finding this out yourself.

At the end of the day, you’ve got an important decision to make. If your data is really important to you and you need it back fast, then be smart and minimise your risk, save time and money by employing the professionals. Contact Data Detect’s now and receive a free and accurate assessment of your data recovery requirements.

How would you know if you are an ideal candidate for Mac Data Recovery Services? Are any of the following thoughts steaming through your head:

My Mac doesn’t even switch on!
I can see or smell smoke coming from my machine!
I dropped my machine and now it wont turn on!
My machine has suffered water or fire damage!
My Mac simply won’t boot up / I cant access my OS-X operating system!
I’ve accidentally formatted my Mac hard drive or a drive patrician that had important data on it!
There are strange clicking sounds coming from my Mac / device!
My Mac applications keep crashing or won’t run at all!
I think my computer has been infected by a virus!
I’ve accidentally deleted files and / or directories!
I can’t hear my hard disk spinning!

If they are, then you have some important choices to make. If you can access and run the Mac Disk Utility (available on Mac OS-X), you can create a virtual disk that may restore your Mac system to a previous working state. If this fails (or you can’t even access it) and you are technically savvy and have the time to try and perform Mac data recovery yourself, then there are demo versions of data recovery software out there that might assist you. Once you have determined whether or not a specific software is right for your particular problem (presuming you know exactly what the problem is of course), then you would need to purchase the software and attempt a Mac data recovery yourself.

The data recovery of important information is not a straight forward process and it is not recommended that you take your Mac down to the local cyber jack computer store geek or even attempt to perform a Mac Data Recovery yourself unless you really know what you’re doing. Problems involving deleted data recovery for example can be very complex and the wrong approach can lead to even more damage.

So although DIY is the cheaper option, if you value your time and time is money you may end up spending a lot of it trying to do something yourself that may result in you loosing that precious data forever – not to mention the frustration and inconvenience the whole experience will unnecessarily create. It really makes sense to search out professional data recovery services from reputable data recovery companies and find the one that will best suit you.

At Data Detect we understand that Mac people are in a league of there own and that they really do love their Mac computers and technology with a fierceness hard to find in the PC world. Data Detect’s Mac data recovery services are expertly applied by Mac orientated technicians who live and breathe Mac technology. So when you bring your data woes to Data Detect, you’ll be deal with a sophisticated, fully certified and trained Mac technician that intimately understands not only the Mac OS-X operating system and Mac hardware, but also how important your information, data, and media is to you.

With Data Detect, a professional and free assessment of your Mac device will be conducted without the fee being built into your final quoted amount. What’s more is you’ll only pay an agreed reasonable fee once a successful Mac data recovery of your information has been performed to your satisfaction. No recovery, no bill! If you need to recover data and want it back, contact Data Detect for professional Mac Data Recovery Services today.

The reality is that for various and often inexplicable reasons, data and information can get itself into a whole lot of apparently irretrievable trouble.

Fortunately, with the launch of their new national website, Data Detect is a dedicated provider of specialised Data Recovery and RAID Recovery services that can quickly and affordably return that precious data to you from most kinds of data storing devices.
Through Data Detect’s new website, access a powerful online knowledge base made up of FAQs, Articles and Blog Posts that will get you in the know quickly and authoritatively on all things related to data and data recovery. More importantly though, those of us biting our nails for help can begin to breath easy by accessing their many convenient channels of getting in touch with us to begin the process of solving a data loss related problem. Get an online quote, send them a sms from your mobile for an instant call back or even chat to a customer agent online.

Data Detect’s Data recovery and RAID Data Recovery technicians are certified and highly experienced to provide professional services to solve most data loss issues from standard operating and media systems to highly complex RAID servers and antiquated legacy systems gone wrong.

A professional and free assessment of your problem will be performed, and unlike other companies, the fee is not built into your final quoted amount. To top this all off, you pay an agreed, reasonable fee only once your data has been recovered to your satisfaction.

If you think you’ve lost your data, get Data Detect’s Data Recovery or RAID recovery services now. With a no obligation, no fee unless your data is returned and a 100% Quality guaranteed service from the industry professionals of Australia, what have you got to loose?

A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it’ll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won’t be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there’s power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.

Naturally the Seagate forums (as well as many other customer-driven forums, like retailers and hardware sites) are flooded with testimonies of customers’ experiences with Seagate support. These are helpful enough to ship you a new drive, as per the warranty, but invariably the drives end up bricking as well.

Data Detect are reporting that there’s a very high rate of failure on these drives. One user in particular reports having set up a 6 TB drive array and over the course of 1 month having half the drives fail on him. No official stats are available, but at least one RMA middleman has told us there’s about 30-40% failure rates.

According to data recovery experts Seagate has diagnosed the problem and issued a new firmware to address it. However, drives that have already been affected can’t have the firmware applied to them due to their locked-down status.

Users are extra-peeved because beyond the usual RMA drill, if they want to recover the data on those drives they can get stuck with a hefty data recovery bill to pay.

Drive origin and firmware seem to be Thailand and SD15, but at least one user reports having had identical problems with a unit from the Wuxi(ng) fab and the SD35 firmware.

Of course clients have mailed and called Seagate about this, but it seems their execs are too busy to pick up the phone or write back. We’ll just refer them to that longstanding truth that good names are built over years and shattered in seconds. Data Detect is able to recover from these problems and has been doing so since the problems arose. In conjunction with its partners Data Detect have a cost effective solution to retrieve its clients data in quick time.

Contact Data Detect in Sydney Australia on 02 99294822 for further details

According to the National Media Lab, you can expect CD’s to last up to 50 yrs and DVD’s up to 25 yrs.

The dye layer that is altered to accept a laser beam when data is written is composed of organic matter. This dye layer breaks down over time and the process is speeded up considerably with humidity, high temperatures and exposure to light. Makes you think twice about leaving your important data and backups in unfavourable conditions!

In recent studies, dye type has been proven to play a crucial role in the longevity of your data on magnetic and laser recorded media. In the study, samples of CD’s that contained the dye phthalocyanine lasted longer than those that didn’t contain this dye type.
You might be asking the question, “How do I know if my DVD’s and CD’s contain this dye layer?” Simply put, you need to stick with well known quality brands. These brands have been tested against high temperatures and humidity. Even though it has been advised not to expose your media to these conditions, should it happen, you have less of a chance of data loss.

Media that was produced using outdated equipment and processes will not stand the test of time. Of course you will find the price more affordable, but in the long run it pays to buy quality brand media to keep your data and memories safe.

In the event of data loss on magnetic and laser recorded media, Data Detect can assist you. We are a Sydney based data recovery company, with more than 20 years experience in the field. We recover data from most medias including: CD-ROM, CD R/W, DVD-R, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM disks. For a comprehensive list, view all media and operating systems.

Get Data Detect – a professional, experienced data recovery company to help you retrieve important lost data from CD’s and DVD’s. Give one of our highly experienced data recovery engineers a call or simply fill out a no obligation quote on the top banner of our website.

You can imagine the chaos when critical data is lost, and it needs to be recovered as quickly as possible. Data detect aims to do just this – recover your data quickly and safely.

If you have forgotten to back-up important files, consider using our reputable and experienced data recovery services .

We offer professional and quality file retrieval for almost any kind of modern technology. For example:

• single hard drive or multiple RAID drives
• Interfaces: IDE, EIDE, Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI, SAS
• The following brands: Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate, IBM & Hitachi, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Samsung, Iomega, Lacie.

In the event of data loss:

1. Give us a call or request a quote
2. Book your media on quote approval.
3. To avoid any further damage we request that you following our packing guidelines
4. Remember – we only charge if we recover the data

Once we have received your hard dive, a free diagnostic evaluation determines whether the media device is accessible to our equipment. A clone of your hard drive is then made and the recovery begins. We use proprietary software and in-house techniques to recover your data.
Your data is then written to any media of your choice (external hard drive, CD, DVD, tape, etc.) and delivered back to you. Our team will provide you with simple instructions on how to access and reinstall your recovered data. Data Detect’s technical support staff are available for assistance should you have any queries or comments.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Aug. 26, 2008 - As the enterprise market for highly reliable, high-capacity storage continues to grow, WDR (NYSE: WDC) today added 750 GB and 1 TB WD RE3 SATA hard drives to its successful family of WD RET hard drives.

Western Digital has become well known in the industry for their high-performance Raptor desktop hard drives. These hard drives spin at a rate of 10K RPM, but only provide up to a 150GB capacity. The new drives, just introduced into the market, spin slightly slower at 7200 RPM. This is not such a big disappointment when you take a look at the extremely high capacities. The two brand new models check in at 750GB and 1TB. These hard drives deliver top-rated performance in a maximum-capacity desktop hard drive. With consumers demanding more and more capacity for data storage, who could ask for more! Well, for the next couple of months anyways…

The new hard drive consists of a SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface, a dual processor design and a full 32GB of onboard cache, ideal for servers, video surveillance, and other write-intensive applications.

WD RE3 Key Features include:

StableTrac™ - The WD RE3 motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce vibration for accurate tracking during read and write operations. This reduces the risk of hard drive failure.

Dual processor - Doube the processing power and 20 percent performance improvement compared to the previous generation of hard drives.

RAFF™ technology - Up to 60 percent performance improvement over previous generation drives, RAFF technology includes more sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive in real time for maximum performance in high vibration environments.

IntelliSeek™ technology - Lowers power consumption by calculating optimum seek speeds, noise, and vibration in active seek modes - all without degrading hard drive performance.

Multi-axis shock sensor - An additional third sensor has been added to all RE3 models to automatically detect the smallest shock events, thus giving your data further protection.

RAID-specific, Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) - Aids in preventing drive fallout caused by the extended hard drive error-recovery processes.

Thermal extended burn-in test - Extended burn-in testing with thermal cycling. This has been added to ensure only the most robust drives are produced as RAID Edition.

NoTouch™ ramp load technology - Significantly less wear to the recording head as recording head never touches the disk media ensuring better protection in transit.

WD RE3 1 TB (model WD1002FBYS) and the 750 GB (model WD7502ABYS) hard drives are available now through resellers and retail agents.

The problem is not that serious for small systems, but once a system goes beyond the 10TB mark it risks pieces of data becoming unreadable. Systems with over 100TB are certain to encounter this problem. The crux of the matter lies in a pesky bit error rate that occurs roughly once every 100 trillion bits. According to Wendt, not even RAID technology, which normally protects all storage systems against data loss, can detect unreadable bits on a SATA drive.

Wendt says that the problem is not really all that serious, provided companies don’t de-duplicate their data to increase their storage capacity. Even super-organised companies generate vast amounts of duplicate data as files and reports are sent around, recreated, edited, amended, saved and resaved in different locations. De-duplication gets rid of unnecessary duplicates, opens space and helps improve the organisation and management of data. The problem with the bit error rate in SATA drives, however, means that if the system can’t read a particular bit of information, and there are no duplicates to fall back on, companies risk a snowball effect. One unreadable bit of data can cause many other files to also become unreadable; the key to unlocking or reconstructing the data lies in that one vital bit that the SATA drive missed.

So while high-capacity SATA disk drives and storage systems have overcome numerous hurdles since their inception, and while they are valuable in solving the archiving and backup problems that many companies face, they are still not as infallible as users and vendors would like them to be.

According to the article, SSDs draw a consistent level of power (the maximum) regardless of whether they are active or not. The level of power that conventional hard drives use, on the other hand, fluctuates according to the amount of activity. Power consumption drops considerably when they are inactive or activity levels are low. Data analysts tested a number of different SSDs from seven different vendors and each one rendered disappointing results.

Understandably, SSD manufacturers have responded strongly to these new, potentially damning revelations. Dean Klein, vice-president of memory system development for Micron said that only early-generation devices were used in the tests, which he freely admits were “quite power hungry”. Patrick Wilkison, who is vice-president of marketing and business development at STEC, has also spoken out against the results. He says that the tests were flawed because legacy drives were used, none of which will be used by any PC manufacturer. Wilkison adds that new versions of SSD have intelligent power management systems to combat excessive power use.

Intel, who weren’t included in Tom’s Hardware SSD tests, has nevertheless added their two cents to the battle by saying that SSDs can be “architected (sic) to improve battery life”. They are expected to release new SSDs with improved capacity (80GB to 160GB) later this year, all of which they claim to be power efficient.

Throughout this entire furore, it appears that everyone has overlooked the fact that Tom’s Hardware believes in the value of SSDs, and says that they are the way of the future. They merely wanted to point out the areas that they believe need improving in order for SSDs to reach their full potential. The thing that can’t be overlooked, however, is that they may have mislead consumers by testing old and outdated SSDs that have already been replaced with improved models.

A team from the University of Berkeley, California, has broken down bulky medical imagers into their component parts and placed the most complicated elements in one central location. Then, using off-the-shelf cell phone technology, they created a portable scanner that can be plugged into any cell phone capable of sending and receiving pictures. Scanned data is sent to the central location for analysis and diagnosis, and the results are sent back. Practical tests carried out by the researchers found that the entire process uses fewer kilobytes than a single sentence email.

These portable scanners can be used for anything from detecting tumours to monitoring the progress of a child in the womb. Boris Rubinsky, professor of bioengineering at Berkeley, says that big bulky imagers and scanners are often too expensive and impractical to run in most areas of developing countries. The new portable cell phone scanners will play an important role in helping hard-pressed doctors improve their diagnoses and treatment options in even the most trying circumstances. The best part is that it needs only a cell phone signal to work. And where, apart from deep within the depths of an underground cave, can you not get a cell phone signal?

It’s quick and easily affordable, for example, an ultrasound machine costs around $70,000 (AU$ 74,341), but a scanner coupled to a cell phone would cost only around $1000 (AU$ 1,062). Another major benefit is that one central server would be capable of dealing with data from several portable devices, eliminating the need for many machines. As you can see, the savings are enormous, and exactly what developing countries need.

But Rubinsky doesn’t see them benefiting only developing countries; he hopes to see the devices in ambulances all around the developed world as well. Completing scans en route means that diagnosis and treatment could begin that much sooner, and could spell the difference between life and death for many critical patients.

We are fortunate enough to live in a world where science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact. If technology continues to advance at this pace, and scientists continue to take their inspiration from cult TV and books, it won’t be long before we’re traversing the universe with the help of someone who may or may not be named Scotty.