Seized But Not Stuck - Recovering Data After Seagate Bearing Failures

Seagate like many other hard drive manufactures use Fluid Dynamic Bearings (FDB) in all their latest drives. There are various benefits to using such bearings which are sited by hard drive manufacturers such as enabling higher storage capacities, lowering acoustics, increasing shipping and handling robustness, better non-operational shock resistance and enabling a greater rotational speed.

However fluid bearings can seize catastrophically under certain shock situations or as a result of fluid leakage. When this does occur it results in the drive failing to spin and subsequently hard drive recovery is required.

Traditionally data recovery from a seized drive is carried out by removing the platters and inserting them in a new hard drive chassis with a working motor spindle assembly, however due to the new design of Seagate drives whereby acoustic dampers are placed between each drive platter extracting the platters is no longer possible by traditional means.

Cleardata's hard disk drive data recovery techniques to recover data from the latest Seagate hard disk drives specifically with bearing failure. As a result our success rate with Seagate drives has increased dramatically.

If you have suffered data loss as a result of this type of failure why not contact cleardata and learn more about our hard disk data recovery services on 0800 046 8087.