Here is a sobering thought; according to a Google Study 18% of hard drives will fail within the first three years.
For a long time I’ve known that hard drives fail. I even thought of starting an online back up company back when 28kbps was considered high speed! I now use a service from Kineticd and I’m grateful that I do. Last weekend I decided to upgraded my laptops hard drive from a spinning disk to a solid state drive (SSD). I thought I was doing things correctly but I was wrong. Suffice to say I made my source drive unreadable and potentially lost data. I say potentially for two reasons: 1/ I had important files backed up and 2/ I knew I could take the drive to Recovery Force for them to perform their data recovery voodoo and get most of my data back.
Lucky for me I had most of my important files backed up but unfortunately I’m not sure what I lost. That’s why I took the drive in to Recovery Force for them to salvage what they can from the drive. I’m a pretty handy guy and don’t mind a challenge but this was one area where I didn’t want to mess around. My best chance for data recovery is to let the pros at Recovery Force take on the challenge.
What did I learn from this experience? You can’t have too much back up. Storage space is relatively speaking inexpensive.


