Thursday, April 27, 2006
Trade or Barter,
Hi,
Just putting this blog up to possibly offer my services for barter or to trade some stuff I have for other stuff I may want. I am a data recovery engineer for one of the larger companies in the U.S. That being said, quality data recovery by large firms is quite expensive and may not be possibly financially for alot of people. So here I am willing to barter my services for things or other services. Any barter or trade job will be performed by me personally inside a class 100 clean room after hours. PS: I have permission. They really like me. :-) I make them money. DR ( Data Recovery) is quite difficult and data can be rendered unrecoverable by someone attempting to repair a faulty hard drive or other media storage. But enough of that.
I will try to keep this up to date with some general tips on keeping your data safe.
I will also offer some items that may be of interest for trade for other items. Currently I have a fairly new tag heuer Kirium dive wathc in the box for trade for other items. I am open to any type of trade anyone may have to offer. I will provide a shot of the watch tomorrow.
In addition, if you are looking for a peice of data recovery software and would like to trade I am open to that, as well.
However, as promised some very basic advice for your HDD storage. Keep your hard drive properly ventilated. Heat is probably the number one killer of hard drives. If you are using an external drive make sure the enclosure has a fan cooling the hdd attached inside. Heat is bad, very bad.
Secondly, defragment your drive atleast once a month. Your drive will not have to work as hard on a disk containing contiguous data. In addition, should you delete, format or otherwise lose valuable data there is a much higher probability that you will be able to recover your data with inexpensive recovery software. Large files like Outlook PST, MP3 music, pictures ie JPG can be fragmented or contained on many clusters not in order on your file system. For example, Windows looks for the first available space to write data. However, you may have deleted a file sometime ago that was say 1mb and now your a writing a 3mb file. Windows may write the first 1mb of your file where your deleted file was then may have to search further out of the disk to write the remainder. Some files depending on the size and usage may actually be in thousand of different locations on your drive. So if you do delete or lose the file recovery with software will be almost impossible.
Blow out the dust, keep the PC Fan and exaust clean. Check it out once a month. Get a can of air from Best Buy, Office Depot etc.. and blast out the dust and cob webs. Ventilation, ventilation, ventialtion.
I will post some tips on how to recover lost data next time. I will try to answer some questions if you have any for me.
Talk soon,
Dave
Hi,
Just putting this blog up to possibly offer my services for barter or to trade some stuff I have for other stuff I may want. I am a data recovery engineer for one of the larger companies in the U.S. That being said, quality data recovery by large firms is quite expensive and may not be possibly financially for alot of people. So here I am willing to barter my services for things or other services. Any barter or trade job will be performed by me personally inside a class 100 clean room after hours. PS: I have permission. They really like me. :-) I make them money. DR ( Data Recovery) is quite difficult and data can be rendered unrecoverable by someone attempting to repair a faulty hard drive or other media storage. But enough of that.
I will try to keep this up to date with some general tips on keeping your data safe.
I will also offer some items that may be of interest for trade for other items. Currently I have a fairly new tag heuer Kirium dive wathc in the box for trade for other items. I am open to any type of trade anyone may have to offer. I will provide a shot of the watch tomorrow.
In addition, if you are looking for a peice of data recovery software and would like to trade I am open to that, as well.
However, as promised some very basic advice for your HDD storage. Keep your hard drive properly ventilated. Heat is probably the number one killer of hard drives. If you are using an external drive make sure the enclosure has a fan cooling the hdd attached inside. Heat is bad, very bad.
Secondly, defragment your drive atleast once a month. Your drive will not have to work as hard on a disk containing contiguous data. In addition, should you delete, format or otherwise lose valuable data there is a much higher probability that you will be able to recover your data with inexpensive recovery software. Large files like Outlook PST, MP3 music, pictures ie JPG can be fragmented or contained on many clusters not in order on your file system. For example, Windows looks for the first available space to write data. However, you may have deleted a file sometime ago that was say 1mb and now your a writing a 3mb file. Windows may write the first 1mb of your file where your deleted file was then may have to search further out of the disk to write the remainder. Some files depending on the size and usage may actually be in thousand of different locations on your drive. So if you do delete or lose the file recovery with software will be almost impossible.
Blow out the dust, keep the PC Fan and exaust clean. Check it out once a month. Get a can of air from Best Buy, Office Depot etc.. and blast out the dust and cob webs. Ventilation, ventilation, ventialtion.
I will post some tips on how to recover lost data next time. I will try to answer some questions if you have any for me.
Talk soon,
Dave
