Looking for HDD Hardware Recovery Equipment for my company

MacH8er · Sep 29, 2014

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could provide information what i would need to purchase or get to be able to do data recovery inhouse in my company rather then having to send out harddrives to other "professional recovery sites". Any information would be appreciated.

boosted1g · Sep 29, 2014

There is different software availible for minor recovery.

If you need the disks physically removed from the drive to recover the data, then even if you have 50 drives to recover, it would still be cheaper then building your own lab.
You have to have a super clean enviroment and very expensive equipment.

USAFRet · Sep 29, 2014

A comprehensive back up solution?
You should never have to do 'data recovery' any farther than "let me get it out of last nights backup"

boosted1g · Sep 29, 2014

Those professional hard drive recovery sites do the recovery in a clean room. The cost alone of making your own clean room would likely be more then the cost of all the outsourced data recovery you would need.

MacH8er · Sep 29, 2014

Hello

Thanks for the quick reply. We have over 200 harddrives, and truthfully the main issue is that although these professional recovery places are helpful my boss is seeking a way of bringing that process inhouse.

Professional hard drive recovery sites do the recovery in a super clean room, and require expensive equipment. Is anyone familiar with what kind of equipment is utilized? Also i saw one place use a medical-grade HEPA clean bench and thats all they really used to keep the harddrive safe from contaminants. I just want a general rundown in cost to set this up in house and to see if it is reasonable or not for the company.

USAFRet · Sep 29, 2014

Unless your company is doing dozens of these per week, it is so not worth it to try to crank up the hardware, workspace, and expertise to try to do this inhouse.

I don't know what your company does, but unless you are already in this space, you should be focused on not needing that function.

Someone deleted a bunch of crap that they shouldn't? "OK...lets get that out of last nights backup"

Data recovery off a specific drive should be the last recourse. Why wasn't that data duplicated elsewhere?

fzabkar · Sep 29, 2014

DIY clean chamber, v2:
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=29602&p=204526#p204526

Head/platter replacement tools:
http://hddsurgery.com/

See Manuals, Animations, and Video Guides at bottom of home page.

Hardware disc imagers include Atola, Data Compass and Deepspar.

http://www.atola.com/
http://www.deepspar.com/
http://www.salvationdata.com/data-recovery-equipment/data-compass.htm

Firmware tools include Ace Lab PC-3000, SalvationData HD Doctor Suite, MRT Lab, SeDiv, WDMarvel.

See http://www.alexsoft.org for other tools (DIY and others).

USAFRet · Sep 29, 2014

From your sig at the above link:
"A backup a day keeps DR away."

...very, very true.

fzabkar · Sep 29, 2014

There's a history behind that sig and my Don Quixote avatar. One of the DR pros at HDD Guru mockingly suggested that I embark on a crusade to encourage people to backup. I replied that it would be as futile as Don Quixote tilting at windmills ...

MacH8er · Sep 30, 2014

In reference to backing up data constantly. How would I organize such a system for about 230 people? Any recommendations would be appreciated any solutions that can save my company time and money would be a great help

USAFRet · Sep 30, 2014

MacH8er :

By hiring a local network specialist.
Far more questions need to be asked than can be answered in here.

What do you have now?
How is your network organized?
Is this all in one building?
What is your budget for this?
What happened the last time someone deleted a critical file, or a drive died? How bad was it for the business?
What OS stack do you use?
What does your company do?

I am not expecting actual answers here....just a small start as to what someone you hire should ask.

kanewolf · Sep 30, 2014

MacH8er :

Look at the higher end NAS units from EMC or NetApp. They can do snapshot backups and create multiple versions of files. Those are the best backup philosophies for large enterprise storage that you are talking about.

MacH8er · Oct 1, 2014

If anyone could provide more solutions i'd appreciate it the more options the better because right now we're understaffed in the IT department

DataMedic · Oct 1, 2014

You might want to check out this article:
http://www.data-medics.com/3/post/2013/09/should-i-start-a-data-recovery-business.html

It explains a lot of what to expect when trying to get into data recovery that you might not expect. If (after reading it) you are set on going forward, PM me and I can give you a list of what to buy to get started as well as some pointers of how to get started learning the trade.

DataMedic · Oct 1, 2014

better yet Skype me I hardly ever check my messages on this forum

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