Data storage solutions are expanding, but what does it mean for data Recovery?

With the amount of data growing, new ways to store data is needed. No longer is it enough for companies to store data NAS or SAN. Today’s newer machine use SMR or shingle magnetic recording to boost storage needs in a world of seemingly endless data. What do these changes mean for data recovery specialists and external hard drive data recovery? It may mean taking new courses to learn how to retrieve compromised data off a machine that is running SMR, for example.

Many specialists may not understand how this newest technology works and why it is valuable to external hard drives that store massive amounts of storage. Did you know drives will use perpendicular magnetic recording only is able to store 1 terabyte per square inch? However, by lapping data files the storage space is increased to 1.3 to 1.4 T per square inch. Data files are stored by overlapping each other, similar to how a roofer would put on shingles.

Why retrieving data files may be more Time-Consuming

With the introduction of drivers that use SMR to sandwich and squeeze data onto drives, data recovery specialists may need to rethink their processes of recovering data using traditional methods to restore data. But since it has been roughly six months or less, since data storage solution companies have shipped this new storage solution for hard drives.

It isn’t the only way data recovery is changing, as laptops are also now being shipped with solid state drives. This new technology may also prove to be challenging for laptop data recovery. Less moving parts may mean less time-consuming measures of troubleshooting and using imagery to see inside a drive. However, it also could mean less moving parts to be able to perform external hard drive data recovery or laptop data recovery.

Will deduplication cause headaches when it comes to data Recovery? 

Instead of taking so long to read and write across the entire drive, newer solutions allow read and write solutions that only read and write over part of the drive at a time. This allows for much faster results. But, without reading the entire drive, will this have any effect when a laptop does develop errors? Will it change how laptop data recovery is offered?

Will data be able to be recovered using the same techniques if drives will be having fewer parts and able to read and write at much faster speeds? Will layering of data have any effect on how much of the personal data is retrievable? These are questions which may be answered after people have time to spend with this new technology and data recovery specialists have had time to explore how data recovery changes may affect data retrieval methods.