28 March 2011
Gone were the days when a data recovery technician was just one of those highly trained IT men who does a monthly clean-up on your hard drive and writes back your corrupted files. The giant leaps and bounds which technology has taken now renders many things, not least of which technicians, obsolete.
Research is underway for drives which can hold petabytes of data, data recovery labs have to keep up accordingly so as not to be left behind
Modern times and technology requires a new breed of data recovery technicians and a new class of clean rooms and tools. The increasing speeds at which modern drives spin and the ever denser data they contain means that a single head crash occurrence can affect far more gigabytes of data which means greater profit losses to a business.
Added to this dilemma is the trend towards reduction in the size of the disks which necessitates an all-the-more cleaner environment to work in as such minute sizes can be damaged by contamination of even a microscopic speck of dust. The heads now float so close to the platter that the tiniest contamination can result in tragic head crash.
The once acceptable Class 100 Clean Room is now a thing of the past and in 2004, the ISO scale became the standard. Some ISO systems now use laser to detect the minutest particles of dust in a clean room.
Whereas a Class 100 Clean Room would suffice for the old 10mb to 250GB drives, an ISO-3 Clean Room is a must for handling terabyte-drives and beyond. Already, research is underway for drives which can hold petabytes of data. Data recovery labs have to keep up accordingly so as not to be left behind.
Kingdom Data Recovery Edinburgh does not just focus on data recovery per se, we brace ourselves for the demands of the future by continually keeping abreast with the current trends.
