Fields Data Recovery Blog

Fields Data Recovery is a data recovery firm based in the UK. If you lose data on any kind of device, chances are that we can get it back for you!

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Caring for your Data: Archiving

We've already discussed the importance of regularly backing up your important data. As many individuals that need to back up important data will find that they need to store vital files on mediums ...

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The Console Wars: Do Hard Drives Have a Part to Play?

Both the PS4 and Xbox One have been available for several weeks, and with the console wars now in full swing analysts, critics and journalists have considered various factors, including functionali...

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Caring for your Data: Defragging your Hard Drive

Imagine a poorly organised library. Dozens of books, journals and other texts have been filed away incorrectly and the thing that you'€™re looking for is one of them. You can still find it if you're ...

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Two-Thirds of all Data Has Not Been Accessed in Six Months

This morning, we were reminded of something rather surprising that was originally brought to Fields Data Recovery's attention in August of this year: two-thirds of all data stored on primary storag...

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Data Recovery: How Long Does a Hard Drive Last?

As with most mechanical items, hard drives have a limited shelf life and will fail eventually. Whilst the title of this article is a question that our data recovery engineers are regularly asked, h...

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Choosing an SSD

So, you'€™re tired of your old hard disk drive and its moving parts. You'€™re trading it in for a sleek, fast and silent SSD. Here are a few tips on what you should look for:

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Data Recovery: How Tough is Your Hard Drive

Hard drives may have gotten a lot tougher in recent years, but dropping one, or a device containing one, is still more than capable of damaging a drive to the extent where the data stored within it...

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Hard Drives Could Store 20TBs Within Three Years

TDK have announced some fantastic news for techies and some not so great news for the R&D departments of data recovery companies: new technology could be used to produce hard drives that store ...

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Data Recovery: How Much Will It Cost?

Generally, most people assume that the fee that Fields Data Recovery will charge to recover lost data can be directly attributed to the amount of data stored on the relevant drive. In reality, this...

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Data Recovery: USB Drives

Over the last 18 months, we'€™ve observed a significant growth in the number of customers looking to recover data from failed or faulty USB drives. Considering the seemingly ubiquitous nature of thes...

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Yes, This Really is a Hard Drive!

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Data Recovery: Smartphones

Software updates, jailbreaking, clumsiness; these are just a few of the things that can leave you needing a data recovery expert to analyse your smartphone'€™s storage media -€“ and you wouldn'€™t be alo...

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What to do With a Rattling Hard Drive

Struggling hard drives, much like any other piece of machinery, have their ways of letting us know that something is wrong. If you'€™re computer seems slower, is freezing for no apparent reason or yo...

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Data Recovery: HDD vs. SSD

Not so long ago, we had very little choice over what type of data storage would be used in our devices. Today, though, this has changed with laptops, desktops, tablets and numerous other devices ut...

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Hello, and Welcome to the Fields Data Recovery Blog

Data recovery is our thing, from hard drives to SD cards; smartphones to games consoles, we can recover lost data from any number of devices and have been doing just that for over 20 years and this is our very first blog post!