Hard drives never break down … Or do they?

“My hard drive is immortal.” Almost certainly we have never said this phrase aloud, not even mentally, but perhaps it is a diffuse feeling we have as we work on our computer hour after hour, day after day, month after month.

Relying on the highly reliable technology of hard drives is reasonable: they are very secure devices with a half-life of several years. However, faults can occur as with any other electronic or mechanical device for solid state drive repair.

What can happen?

The light goes out while the disc is in operation, the computer overheats due to poor ventilation, something falls and hits … And of course, other major disasters, such as virus attacks, sabotage, fire, flood, unwanted formatting, etc. These are just some possible situations that will cause electromechanical breakdowns and prevent us from accessing our data.

Of course, in many cases, the disk fails without warning. That’s why we never tire of remembering the importance of having backup copies. However, we know that not everyone does it and, what is more, that even copy systems can fail. Thus, we get many customers whose only copy of their valuable data is stuck inside a broken disk.

To try to dismantle that false sense of security that is often (“To break the hard drive? That does not happen to me …”), we tell you, as a diary, some recent cases that we have attended.

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As you can see, all types of people and companies are faced with unexpected failures of their hard drives and other storage systems.

It is convenient to make backups in a systematic and preferably automated way. If the hard drive fails and there is no backup, or can not be accessed by other faults, to avoid irreparable damage it is recommended to turn off the system and use a professional data recovery service.