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    Data recovery - who is the best in the land ?

    In short, we don't do these kinds of recoveries on mobile devices because (generally) the chances are low to zero. With this kind of instance you have so many things working against you: flash storage (one file will be scattered all over the NAND), TRIM depending on the storage, the file...
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    SSD inaccessible - Recovery tool

    From a data recovery perspective, the success rates of recovery on SSDs is lower than on HDDs for many reasons. The two biggest reasons would be all of the different iterations of FW across all of the manufacturers and support thereof, and seconds when NAND memory starts to fail it fails fast...
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    Recover data from hard drive that has been opened

    I haven't logged on here in many years. @x7razor you would only remove the platters in very rare circumstances which would be if the actual motor is seized which hardly ever happens anymore. You might also remove them to check platters for damage, but again quite rare. If the PCB was faulty...
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    Constant disconnects on Cool Ideas Octotel

    I'm not clued up on the lingo, but when we were still with Octotel at the end they did reconfigure our connection from PPoE to dynamic IP? That did seem to help with the disconnects, but the quality of the connection was still bad in terms of laggy when remoting and even some streaming used to...
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    Constant disconnects on Cool Ideas Octotel

    We've moved to Openserve successfully and 2 days uptime so far, zero issues and remoting into my work machine from home is massively more responsive, even though our Openserve line is a slower one. Seems the solution was as simple as moving to the Openserve network.
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    Constant disconnects on Cool Ideas Octotel

    Interesting read, this thread, as we have been faced with the same issues since the beginning of the month. We moved into a house in Kenilworth a few months ago and there was existing fibre internet. For the first 2 months we just took over the old owner's account and the internet connection was...
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    Advice on external Hard Drive.

    Might be worth looking into getting it recovered, if you haven't already?
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    Western Digital Elements portable hardrive not detecting in Windows 7&10

    One that is backed up :)
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    Western Digital Elements portable hardrive not detecting in Windows 7&10

    These drives do not have a SATA PCB, only native USB, so removing it from the plastic casing doesn't help unfortunately. They suffer from bad sectors, bad/failed head/s. I've yet to see one with a faulty PCB, it's always an issue pertaining to platter degredation or a head failing. I'd offer...
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    Desperate for help - external HDD problem

    As others have said you unfortunately can't connect it via SATA because it only has USB connectivity on the PCB. USB is even less stable than SATA when a drive has a hardware issue, so there's really little you can do other than get it professionally recovered. This is the general procedure with...
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    Suggested data recovery company

    You're welcome to pop us a mail. Courier can be arranged. service [at] southbit.co.za.
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    SAS Drives

    Just out of interest, why are you needing 2 drives if one has failed?
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    External Hard Drive

    I have an equally big pile of failed WD, Seagate and Toshiba drives in the office that have been recovered. Actually the Seagate pile is the highest, but that being said they are sold the most. I could give my opinion of which I think is best, but as is apparent in my industry they all fail at...
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    Internal Hard Drive Casing

    I'd also suggest spending a bit more and getting a reputable/known brand, this year we've had a few HDDs come in that have failed from being put into cheap external enclosure that have bad quality and sometimes faulty power supplies.
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    Too soon junior (Contains VTEC Yo)

    The well cared for examples are only going to appreciate in value from here.
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