Hard Drive Recovery and Reliability

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SD Card Recovery

Apparently SD cards have two modes. Normal and "SPI" mode, some kind of serial thing, it might work if SD mode doesn't. Guy uses an Arduino to do it: http://tech.tiefpunkt.com/2013/08/sd-card-recovery-using-an-arduino/


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Neat web page listing the recommended hard drives, written by a hard drive recovery service: http://www.driveservice.com/bestwrst.htm

Great thread, 2013-12, on consumer vs enterprise drives. Reliability is about even mechanically, firmware is more suitable on enterprise for RAID. - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/04/1726254/for-first-three-years-consumer-hard-drives-as-reliable-as-enterprise-drives

SSD + Power protection - this guy tested a few drives, only Intel SSD's could survive any power outage. http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/27/208249/power-loss-protected-ssds-tested-only-intel-s3500-passes - 2013-12.


tags: hard drive, disk, repair, fix, problems, TestDisk, crash

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    Author:
    leonard
    Date Updated:
    2018-11-06 15:21:14
    Date Created:
    2002-11-12 13:19:07

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