Will Ascenzo
Will is the lead blogger, copywriter, and copy editor for Gillware Data Recovery and Digital Forensics, and a staunch advocate against the abuse of innocent semicolons.
Flood Damaged Hard Drive Recovery Case Study: RAID-1 Mirrored Array
The client in this flood damaged hard drive recovery case sent us a two-drive RAID-1 array that had been submerged in floodwater during this year’s horrific flooding in Louisiana. RAID-1 is commonly used as a backup system, because both hard…
Water Damaged HDDs: Recovering Your Data After a Flood
Special thanks to Ron Dennison for providing his insights in hard drive failure analysis for both this blog post and our handling guide for water damaged HDDs. In our data recovery lab at Gillware, we’re no strangers to water damage. When we…
Synology RS3412xs Data Recovery Case Study: Deleted LUNs
In this data recovery case, the client had four deleted LUNs they needed recovered. These LUNs, or iSCSI targets, had lived on a Synology RackStation RS3412xs network-attached storage device. Synology RS3412xs Data Recovery Case Study: Deleted LUNs RAID level: 6 Total…
Tandberg RDX Quikstor Data Recovery: When a Tape is Not a Tape
When is a tape not a tape? When it’s a Tandberg RDX Quikstor RDX cartridge! In this Tandberg RDX Quikstor data recovery case study, a client from a medical clinic came to us with what appeared to be magnetic tape…
Dell EqualLogic PS4100 Data Recovery Case Study: 24-Drive RAID-50
The client in this case had a Dell EqualLogic PS4100 SAN. This SAN was filled with 24 300-GB enterprise-grade Seagate hard drives. These 24 hard drives were combined in a RAID-50 array with two hot spares. RAID-50, in general, has…
Motorola Droid MOTXT1254BN64 Data Recovery Case Study
Mobile phones have become an integral part of our daily lives. Phones store our photos, our messages, our contacts, and our memories. They connect us to the world. But they are also several-hundred-dollar, fragile pieces of technology that sit in our…
OWC Aura SSD Data Recovery Case Study: Boot Failure
In this case, a client from a medical clinic came to us for our data recovery services. Using Parallels Desktop, they had been storing medical records on an OWC Aura SSD. The OWC Aura SSD was designed as a high-capacity…
Seagate Barracuda with Boot Error
A Sweet Windows 10 Upgrade Turns Sour Back in the spring and summer of 2015, Microsoft made a huge show out of its brand-new Windows 10 operating system. Many Windows users were excited. Windows operating systems seemed to follow the same…
GoPro Videos Recovered from PNY microSD Card
microSD cards seem almost excessively tiny. They can fit comfortably on a dime. And yet that tiny package can store dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of data. They seem to be a tiny mystery. But they are actually just the same…