Lost Data

“The first step in recovering from a data loss is to ascertain whether the loss is a result of a physical hard drive failure, i.e. broken hardware; or, a logical drive failure, i.e. corruption or loss of File System or data.“
- getdata.com

“Traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) use a spinning magnetic platter and a read/write arm that floats over the platter (kind of like a record player) and have various mechanical components that can fail. However, from a data recovery standpoint, the success rate for recovering data from failed HDDs is significantly higher than SSDs or Solid State Drives.”
- Ken Colburn

A hard drive is like a scale. It doesn’t know the difference between things that are on it; it only knows their size. But instead of kilograms, a hard drive measures things in terms of megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB) and terabytes (TB.)