External Hard Drive Data Recovery

Data storage requirements have increased exponentially over the last decade. As this need continues to grow, so do the sales of the large external hard drives needed to store that data. More and more users are doing what they feel is right by backing up their data. The unfortunate catch to this is, most users are backing up their data to.....yes that's right......hard drives. Unfortunately, even having a backup is not a 100% guarantee that your data will be kept safe since hard drives fail. In our business we are actually seeing more and more external hard drives come in for recovery, and it is getting to a point where the number of external drives is nearly going to surpass internal drives.

The reason for the increase in failed external hard drives is not only because more people are using them, but also because they are not as well protected as a desktop computer drive. External drives are often dropped, mishandled, disconnected improperly, or damaged due to power surges. Unfortunately, aside from an online backup solution, external hard drives are the best solution for storing large amounts of data. The average user today has well over 100 gigabytes of data, and the most cost-effective option for the average person for backing up data is an external hard drive.

If you do lose your data, it may not be gone forever. Data recovery from external hard drives is really no different for us than any other hard drive data recovery proceedure. We work with every brand, model and manufacturer, no matter if it is a stand-alone drive in an enclosure or a 2 or 4 disk set as is seen in some of the bigger LaCie and Maxtor external storage devices.

Some of the more popular external hard drives we specialize in are:

Fantom
LaCie
Maxtor
Seagate
SimpleTech
Western Digital

As well as the following brands:

Acomdata
Apricorn
Beyond Micro
Buffalo Technology
Buslink
Cavalry
FreeCom
INOI
Iomega