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Category: Computers and Technology  >>  Data backup- Data Recovery

Data Loss due to Media Surface Contamination

By Andrew Watson   [ 29/04/2008 ]
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Computers are widely used in each kind of factory and industry to store the data so that in the time of needs, it can act as a source of information. Professionals use them to save the stock status, employee records, payment details; confidential information of the company etc. and hard drives serve as the most common storage media to store any kind of data.

The hard drives storage capacity has increased more than by ten thousand times for the last decade. But along with this the gap between the disk surface and the head has decreased from sub micrometers to few nanometers. Although the gap is decreasing but the problems like sensitivity to the disk surface contamination and hence fatal failure is increasing day by day and along with the conditions like data loss are making up their place in the scenario.

This happens mostly in chemical factories and those which use or manufacture metallic compounds, the contaminants like VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and magnetic particles like Nickel or Cobalt make a magnetic layer over the disk surface and hence acting as a cause of hard drive failure. These particles fly in the air and stick to the hard drive surface and gradually decrease the performance of the hard drive. Like humans, the overdose of these particles is not healthy for hard drives also.

Due to the decreased gap between the head and the disk surface, the condition becomes more severe as the particles may come interfere the working of the head movement and hence stopping it to read further. In most of the cases the head crashes and the hard drive fails and the data reaches at the verge of loss.

So it is recommendable to give your computer systems and hence your hard drives a clean and pollution free environment. But in the cases where contamination in the air is at the peak level, even providing the systems, the required atmosphere, does not work. So at last the hard drive fails and the data may get lost.

In these situations you need a solution that could recover your data and could save you from this catastrophic condition. The data in this situation can only be recovered by the help of data recovery services which is provided by the Data Recovery companies. These companies are able to recover data with great efficiency and employ the techniques, according to the cause, in the special labs called clean rooms.

The recovery starts from standard process like wiping the disk surface with a wetted or dry sampling filter and then analyzing the contents. The environment provided in the clean rooms is dust free so that no further contamination may happen to the disk surface.

Stellar is the leading data recovery company which provides the best recovery options in case of surface contamination. This offers class 100 clean room facility in order to recover data, no matter how severe the damage is. In case of head crash, the head is replaced with the new one and further the data recovery procedure is followed.

Technicians are well skilled and employ the best procedures to guarantee the safe and better data recovery. So need to worry at all about the lost data, all you have to do is to pack the hard drive in an airtight bag and consult Stellar data recovery services.

About the author:
Andrew Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com

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