while we all know that anytime reporters use hyperbole of the "oh my godz0r! this new hardware / software / service / penis cream is teh l33test evar!!1!" in their writing, it often winds up looking foolish... but i almost would agree that the headline chose in this article is accurate. at least to date, i am unaware of a forensic disk recovery more badass than this...
Most amazing disk data recovery ever
i've seen Scott Moulton talk about this field and it's always amazingly interesting to me.
If i could choose one additional area of tech expertise that i could go total rock star on (say, if a fairy godmother were fulfilling my wish for training and funding for the equipment necessary to get into the field) i would really wish to be way hipper than I am with data forensics. It's wickedly-lucrative work if you do it for profit, but also it'd be amazingly cool to be able to help out friends who are stuck in a jam. I did a disk component swap once a while back, on a single platter drive, and it was a little hair-raising but effective. It would be so cool to have my own clean room and the technology to do this in a more proper way.
But this level of data recovery is just outlandish... they didn't say what type of drive it was, whether commercial off-the shelf or a specialized/ruggedized product. I"d be interested to know more. And to see actual photos of what shape it was in when recovered from the crash site. The whole article is a good read, and is also quite short... check the link.
Most amazing disk data recovery ever
It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of 2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to earth in fragments. Now, amazingly, data from a hard drive recovered from the fragments has been used to complete a physics experiment - CXV-2 - that took place on the doomed Shuttle mission.
Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact. ...
sent it on to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see if the data, any data, could be recovered. ... The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing. (emphases mine)
Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact. ...
sent it on to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see if the data, any data, could be recovered. ... The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing. (emphases mine)
If i could choose one additional area of tech expertise that i could go total rock star on (say, if a fairy godmother were fulfilling my wish for training and funding for the equipment necessary to get into the field) i would really wish to be way hipper than I am with data forensics. It's wickedly-lucrative work if you do it for profit, but also it'd be amazingly cool to be able to help out friends who are stuck in a jam. I did a disk component swap once a while back, on a single platter drive, and it was a little hair-raising but effective. It would be so cool to have my own clean room and the technology to do this in a more proper way.
But this level of data recovery is just outlandish... they didn't say what type of drive it was, whether commercial off-the shelf or a specialized/ruggedized product. I"d be interested to know more. And to see actual photos of what shape it was in when recovered from the crash site. The whole article is a good read, and is also quite short... check the link.
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