Recovering Data From Broken Hard Drives and SSDs (Video)

Russell Chozick owns a small company in Austin. TX, called Flashback Data that recovers data from messed-up hard drives. And SSDs and Flash memory, too. How badly damaged does a drive have to be to defeat Russell and his crew? Apparently, smashed to bits. Not long aqo we did a video about a company that destroys data on hard drives, and we've had at least one Ask Slashdot where the question was, "What's the Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?" In today's video, Russell is talking about the opposite of destruction -- except that he destroys data upon request, too. Obviously, checking the wrong box on a customer order form could cause big problems at Flashback Data, couldn't it? Let's hope they never do that -- and let's hope we all back up all of our data so we never need to use a data recovery service. You do back up all your data, don't you?

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Re:BS Summary

[guttentag]

Do one overwrite with zeros for magnetic media.

I just send all my broken storage media to the Nixon Presidential Library, labelled "18 1/2 minutes" in a box with a return address for "Flasback Data Recovery Specialists: We Recover Anything, Confidentiality Guaranteed. Austin, TX." They replace all the 1s and 0s with pure silence. Nothing beats that.

Re:Slashdot is vulnerable and should be updated

[ArcadeMan]

Maybe you haven't updated Firefox in a while. Are you still using yesterday's version?

Re:BS Summary

[CanHasDIY]

Thermite, like duct tape, is the solution to damn near everything.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some men in black suits and dark glasses at my door, and I think they want to talk to me....

Re:BS Summary

[xtracto]

Nice try NSA guy.