A dentist called me in a panic in August 2019. His practice had been shut down by a company he had never heard of, along with roughly four hundred others, and there was nothing local to recover. What I tell clients about the cloud, and about the second copy nobody counts.

Flat rate, or flat service? Data recovery is unregulated. No license is required, no board governs it, and no minimum standard exists for who may advertise the service. So as PC repair shops, phone stores, IT providers and big-box retailers have moved in, the number of companies advertising professional data recovery has multiplied. The number of certified laboratories has not. What has grown instead is the distance between what is advertised and what is actually behind the counter.

While this article will go into more detail regarding the overwhelming unreliability of American shipping services and the affect it is having in terms of data loss, I would like a moment to first give a brief description and example of the effects caused from a critical data loss.

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As a professional data recovery laboratory, imagine receiving case after case of drives destroyed from negligent practices and parties left devastated.  Some will be victims of lawsuits from losing their clients’ work.  Our objective at Tri-State Data Recovery & Forensics LLC is to build awareness of the rapid incline of unscrupulous activity in “data recovery services”, and by creating a more honest and educated industry for the future of America.

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At the end of another summer on an unusually humid day, the phone rang.
A woman on the other side of the line pleaded like a mother with an ill child.., “I need your help!”.
Sensing the emotion in her voice, I calmly replied “Tell me what happened?”

As videos of data recovery techniques in America on YouTube has skyrocketed in the last few years, it may seem like a logical thing to try.  Watching some videos on YouTube about data recovery may even provide a better insight on that individuals techniques, good or bad, but be warned, without a proper understanding of how a drive accesses data and functions, you may be in for an irrevocable disaster. 

In this article I will explain the common misconceptions found all over the internet regarding the lifespan of a hard drive.  After reading this article, you will have a better understanding of how and why a hard drive fails.