An IT company based in Italy sent the lab a failed Western Digital 2TB hard drive no use data access could be made the hard disk contained a business archive of AutoCAD drawings.
Here is the case study of the Western Digital WD20EADS-00S2B0 hard drive:
This hard drive was enclosed in an external housing or caddy for ease of data access and portability.
Diagnosis:
Technicians realized that the hard drive was suffering from bad sectors which had impacted unto the logical structure of the data and therefore made access to the user data impossible under ordinary means the hard disk was cloned including all bad sectors that could be read and the file system which was Linux EXT/3 was rebuilt, this hard drive model was the first 2TB into the market place and set the bench.
Spec of this Western Digital WD20EADS-00S2B0 hard disk drive:
2TB maximum storage capacity
Manufactured December 2009
SATA interface
32MB cache
5400RPM
Transfer rate: 300MB/s
Eco friendly
What was the outcome?
Technicians cloned all user data area including bad sectors the file system was trickier than most as it was from a Linux box or set up, the total amount of recovered data was 1TB of archived business data which was vital to the company the recovered data was copied to WD 2TB hard drive.