https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/intro-water-damaged-hdds/ Professional Data Recovery Services Thu, 19 May 2022 13:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.7 https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/intro-water-damaged-hdds/#comment-4729 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:34:39 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5534#comment-4729 […] hard drive, and you certainly don’t want to run a drive with water inside it. Our blog post on water damaged hard drives explains why in greater detail. Put simply, the hard drive freezer trick can easily lead to […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/intro-water-damaged-hdds/#comment-976 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:24:48 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5534#comment-976 […] the board, indicating that at some point, the PCB had been exposed to water or some other liquid. Liquids and electricity, generally speaking, do not play well together. Liquid on the board had caused an electrical short, burning it out. We needed to replace the […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/intro-water-damaged-hdds/#comment-975 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:21:25 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5534#comment-975 […] 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 drives in the array are mirror images of each other. When one dies, the other can take its place and prevent data loss. But unfortunately, as a backup, RAID-1 has one weakness. This backup system breaks down completely when both hard drives are under several feet of water. Water and electronics don’t mix; water and hard disk drives especially so. […]

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