Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery

Linus - Because of this video. I was able to recover my data removing the configuration chip from my old HDD and placing it onto a new main board. I got back pictures from when my daughter was first born. I cant tell you how much I appreciate your videos. Cheers!

"dont waste $1000 on data recovery!" proceeds to show the most common drive malfunction type in the first two minutes and tells us to go to an $1000 professional

"How to save money in data recovery..." Buying two drives instead of one in the first place.

🏆 How to Recover a Crashed RAID 5EE After Controller Failure or Multiple Disk Failure 🏆 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfH7BEFwOE

Ironically they lost some of the footage of them learning to recover data

0:44 one guy got the message to pretend to be working, and one didn't XD

Video title: "Don't Waste $1000 on Data Recovery" In the video: "This is the Rapidspar. It costs around $2000."

This just made me want to have a backup for my backup and maybe a backup for that backup

2017: Linus' drops his hard drive at DriveSavers' office 2018: Linus' drops his hard drive at DeepSpar's office

Linus: So yarek, where did you learn to do all this? Yarek: I waz KGB.

I love videos like this! Basically, the best Hard drive or SSD you can get is anything x2, and keep copies of the same data on another drive.

I would like to thank you for shearing info about HDD recovery, especially for this trick with automount function and RStudio. It helped me a lot while trying to recover old 1TB HDD from my parents with literately all the photos from 2004 till now. U rock!

Linus: Tells to be careful because of physical problem Also Linus: Instantly lifts the drive before it has time to stop spinning

Awesome. I've done probably close to a hundred HDD data recoveries myself over the years. I also did PCB swaps, head swaps and even platter swaps for which I could find head replacements to get off the data of the platter for which the head(s) where non functioning. One should always keep in mind that once you open up a HDD, you should recover as much data as possible, because afterwards the drive is going bad. I have one tip: If you have a Hitachi drive in your PC or laptop (no matter which model), replace it asap. I've not encountered a drive of that brand that doesn't have problems, even brand new ones.

Dude! I love this channel. I love tech. Another great video! I cant get enough of Linus Tech Tips!

13:44 whoever at that office bought that HHKB to just be there. Props to you dude.

One of my favorite data recovery utilities is ddrescue for Linux. Assuming you just have bad sectors, you can make a bit for bit copy of your drive and when bad sectors are encountered, they are added to a log and skipped for the time being. After the program has reached the end of the drive, it goes back and tries the failed sectors again, pruning the log as it gets good reads. You can have it repeat this process ad infinitum, of quit after a number of passes.

5:15 - That panic as Linus just scratches the metal of one drive across the PCB of the other... "Yeah, they look(ed) perfect."

Best teaching episode ever. I have some bad hard drives and now I know what is their problem. Please keep it up.

Linus: Yarek, you ready? Yarek: I am waiting here since a decade and you are not ready to come in.