pcmag.com— Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire? Well, PCMag's executive editor Jeremy Kaplan did while on his vacation. Why? He wanted to see if Ontrack could save his barbecued data.
Jan 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
Seems like a long winded advertisement for Ontrack to me. I'd summarize the entire article as "Got a drive that crashed pretty bad? Ontrack has a great hard drive recovery service. For a fee you can have them take a look at your drive and decide whether or not you want them to try recovering it. Here's their pricing scheme, contact information, and some additional plugs for how we sent in a drive and what sort of problems they can typically solve."I'd digg the article if they maybe had a comparison (or even a mention!) with other data recovery methods or vendors. As it is, I would almost expect it to be one of those advertisements that looks like a regular article in the middle of a magazine.
You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic. It's sad to think a disk can be ruined more by a mechanical failure than being thrown on a camp fire!
"Exactly this post should digg it self a hole! For any one that dugg this, then when your hard drive goes bad I will take it to my clean room (oh yeah it the same room my dog sleeps in during the day) and just replace parts on it till it works. And then send you a bill for $300."Thanks, Captain Grammar.
So the point is that OnTrack really can get data back from seriously fried (literally in this case!) drives. I've used 'em since '96 or so, and it's worth a digg for those who have data worth retrieving - eg worth the money they want.Got a hard drive with something useless that toast? Put it in your freezer or send it to DiggThisOrThat to fix. Got one that's actually important, OnTrack is the way to go.What I really would have liked to see was an article where PCMag cooked 5 drives, then pounded them a bit, then sent them off to the top 5 recovery houses and compared the results...
benthekunoJan 30, 2006
Seems like a long winded advertisement for Ontrack to me. I'd summarize the entire article as "Got a drive that crashed pretty bad? Ontrack has a great hard drive recovery service. For a fee you can have them take a look at your drive and decide whether or not you want them to try recovering it. Here's their pricing scheme, contact information, and some additional plugs for how we sent in a drive and what sort of problems they can typically solve."I'd digg the article if they maybe had a comparison (or even a mention!) with other data recovery methods or vendors. As it is, I would almost expect it to be one of those advertisements that looks like a regular article in the middle of a magazine.
recoverysoftwaresorgJan 3, 2011
"Seems like a long winded advertisement for Ontrack to me. " - Agree! http://www.recoverysoftwares.org/
dhughesJan 30, 2006
You'd think the fire would have caused a change in the disk's surface magnetism. Heat and shock are usually what can change anything magnetic. It's sad to think a disk can be ruined more by a mechanical failure than being thrown on a camp fire!
rnick1976Jan 30, 2006
"Exactly this post should digg it self a hole! For any one that dugg this, then when your hard drive goes bad I will take it to my clean room (oh yeah it the same room my dog sleeps in during the day) and just replace parts on it till it works. And then send you a bill for $300."Thanks, Captain Grammar.
jmog123Jan 30, 2006
Read this in PC Mag a few weeks ago. No Digg
systemsguyJan 30, 2006
So the point is that OnTrack really can get data back from seriously fried (literally in this case!) drives. I've used 'em since '96 or so, and it's worth a digg for those who have data worth retrieving - eg worth the money they want.Got a hard drive with something useless that toast? Put it in your freezer or send it to DiggThisOrThat to fix. Got one that's actually important, OnTrack is the way to go.What I really would have liked to see was an article where PCMag cooked 5 drives, then pounded them a bit, then sent them off to the top 5 recovery houses and compared the results...
paranoiddroidJan 31, 2006
Ontrack spam...
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