Jun 16 2009

Why Clean Rooms Are Required For Data Recovery

Published by admin at 4:29 am under Data Recovery

NASA's Glenn Research Center cleanroom.Image via Wikipedia


Different users have different views about what the Clean Rooms are and why they actually are important for data recovery. Fundamentally the Clean Rooms are safe and controlled laboratory environments, which are designed to avoid minute airborne contaminants that could be dust or even pollen.

For data recovery firms, the Clean Room is a necessary asset as hard disk repair needs exceptionally clean and secure working conditions. The airflow in Clean Room is completely clear. The Clean Rooms are also free from other harmful environmental factors as humidity, ESD (ElectroStatic Discharge), smoke, high temperature (viz. due to direct sunlight) or pressure.

The Clean Rooms are divided into different classes. With every class limiting permitted different number of dust particles per cubic meter and the maximum size of dust particles. Thus the Class 1 Clean Rooms allow maximum 1000 particles for each cubic meter.

The Clean Rooms are mainly used in semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, hard drive recovery companies and biotech industries. The data recovery firms use Clean Rooms to ensure protected environments for storage media internals as hard drives and SSDs (Solid State Drives) in order to avoid further damage to disk internals that actually store the data viz. hard drive platters.

Why are the Clean Rooms necessary for physical Data Recovery?

The hard drive internals specifically hard disk platters, are extensively susceptible to damage from dust particles once opened. Even a microscopic dust particle could damage the sensitive platters and may separate the stored data for life. To avoid these situations, Hard Drive Recovery companies use Clean Rooms.

Hard drive technique continues apace with the drive being able to store a large amount of data but it becomes more compactly packed on disk platters and the possibilities of further damage are high. So, it would be better to find out a trusted and experienced Hard Drive Recovery company with high standard Clean Rooms and send your hard drive to it.

Along with a certified Clean Room, absolute and timely hard drive recovery also needs expertise of skillful and experienced data recovery professionals. Thus, you should send your hard drive to a data recovery company that has a team of trained and qualified recovery specialists.

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