Apr 23 2008
Prevent Data Loss by SMART
A very general misconception observed among the computer users is that their hard drive is very less prone to failure as perhaps they have bought it new and the hard drive developers have done a great job in developing the drive with the latest technology. Hence they take this for granted. But users wake up!as there is no hard disk which can’t fail. Although several precautions are there which if taken on time, can help you to avoid this failure.
There are two major categories of hard disk failure: unpredictable and predictable. Unpredictable failures are those which you can’t judge before hand and happen suddenly like short circuit and burning out of some electronic component, due to natural disasters like flood or static electricity. While on the other hand predicable failures are those which you can predict some time before and take time to occur. This include motor break down, bad electricity connections, spinning inability etc.You can’t do anything with the unpredictable failures but some measures can be taken if you come to know that the hard drive is about to fail.
SMART which stands for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technique, is one of the way to it. Most of the hard drives loose their performance slowly and knowing it before provides a great help to the user as at that point of time he/she can go to take some necessary steps to prevent from data loss. This technique diagnoses the problem and creates a warning for the user before any user becomes helpless. The monitoring of its health and conditions of the drive is performed by SMART hard drive itself. But a major disadvantage is this that you can’t completely rely on this technique as it is able to detect 70% of total drive errors. Also it doesn’t have any direct procedure to warn the user or OS about the error until its status is checked and hence those errors can go undetected.
So what about the rest 30% errors undetected and the unpredictable failures? And what if even after adopting this technique your hard disk has failed and now you are suffering a severe data loss. Data recovery services and data recovery software is the answer to your question. The choice between the two depends upon the cause of the hard disk failure.
If your hard drive is having a physical damage like head crash or any other component damage then data recovery services are there for your help whereas in other cases data recovery software comes into action.
Stellar data recovery services are the most advanced and well known services provided in case of hard disk failure. The data is recovered is class 100 clean rooms with dust free environment and thus ensuring a complete data recovery. Technicians follow certain tools and techniques to find out the reason first and then go for the respective solution like if any replacement of the component is required then it is done with much efficiency.
Various software are also made available by Stellar to recover data in case of logical hard disk failure. These software are specifically designed to run for a variety of operating systems like Windows, Linux, UNIX, Macintosh and Novell. They possess the best feature to scan the hard drive in each and every case of failure and hence recover the lost data. Various file systems are supported in order to make a complete recovery.
