• “100% successful. Well done”

    Ross Lindsay Cumbernauld

  • “A company that clearly knows exactly what it is doing, delivers exactly what it promises and does so without any fuss, just excellent service.”

    Howard Wilson Bristol

  • “Over the moon with the service, and the fact that I have all my data back is an absolute lifesaver.”

    John McNiff Pontefract

  • “You expect efficiency as standard and once you've got it, you realise that friendliness is extremely important too. Tierra does really well in both areas.”

    Daniel Batista Millares London

  • “Definitely worthwhile using your services to get back what everyone else was telling me was lost! Those photos and accounts are priceless.”

    Paul Edwards Liverpool

  • "I found Tierra to be clear, concise, straight forward, friendly, extremely professional, competent and highly knowledgeable."

    Callum Donez North East Lincolnshire

  • "Tierra salvaged my backup, with persistence that I can't have imagined."

    Gordon Dodds Cornwall

  • "Tierra stepped in quickly, efficiently and professionally restored all my lost data. Outstanding quick service."

    Jonathan Crombie Crombies of Edinburgh

  • "The level of customer service I experienced from your company was very impressive."

    Diane J Earle London

  • "This company truly understands the concept of time-critical recovery."

    Professor Ben Kneller University of Aberdeen

  • "Thank you for your professionalism, speed and quality of work."

    Anna Mavrogianni London

  • "No hesitation in recommending your company to anyone."

    Phil Codd Doncaster

  • “Thank you again for doing what the first computer repair shop I visited told me was basically not possible.”

    Kenny McLeish Carluke

  • “Tierra rocks!”

    Stephan Ringer London

Should I Use RAID 0 to Store My Data?

In most peoples’ minds the term RAID is synonymous with data redundancy. That is to say the ability of the data store to survive hardware failure. For most types of RAID configuration this is true. However there is one glaring exception and it is one of the most commonly encountered, this is RAID 0. What [...]

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Recovering Data From Mac Hard Drives

At Tierra we have great success with Mac data recovery and we are comfortable with the unique challenges Mac hard drives bring. We have the technology to recover your critical Mac data and we carry out the data extraction procedure within a Mac environment, this is an important point as the standard Mac HFS+ file system [...]

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Floods in Thailand Now Affecting Supplies of New Hard Drives

The recent floods in Thailand have seriously affected various manufacturers of parts used by every hard drive maker. Both hard drive manufacturing plants and the companies that supply them have failed to resist this latest natural disaster and find their factory floors under several feet of water. We wrote recently of Western Digital’s excellent Q2 results and [...]

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Example of a Data Recovery Procedure for a Hitachi HCP725050GLA380 Drive

Here’s a brief overview of a particular Hitachi HCP725050GLA380 Hdd recovery case undertaken here at Tierra Data Recovery. The client was in London and had a Lacie 500GB external hard drive. The symptoms described did not extend beyond “the drive doesn’t work”. A collection was arranged. On receipt in our lab the next day the Lacie external [...]

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Hard Drives – Who Sells More: Seagate, Hitachi or Western Digital?

Ever wonder which hard drive manufacturer is top dog? Over the last couple of decades the hard disk drive industry has both grown and shrunk simultaneously. The number of manufacturers that can afford to stay in the game has shrunk and they margins they operate on are also considerably thinner even while they continue to [...]

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Seagate Data Recovery

Tierra’s ongoing research and development program revealed the range of hard drive recovery problems encountered during Seagate data recovery. Hard drive recovery is needed when a hard disk fails and the data files and folders become either partially or totally inaccessible. Seagate Technology is one of the world’s largest hard drive manufacturers, with 52,000 staff [...]

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What’s Wrong With Cheap Data Recovery?

At Tierra Data Recovery we understand everyone would like good cheap data recovery.  Unfortunately like so many things in life – you get what you pay for.  That’s why we provide affordable professional data recovery. Beware of companies that offer low entry prices just to get your drive.  Once they have it the costs can [...]

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What Do I Do With My Failed RAID?

This article will cover failed RAID 0 (data spread across multiple drives with no redundancy) and failed RAID 5 (multiple drives, but one drive can fail and RAID is still in operation). But before we get to any specifics you have to be clear in your own mind about the following: “How important is my [...]

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Data Recovery Aberdeen

As Tierra Data Recovery discovered one Christmas, fast, professional data recovery in Aberdeen can save thousands of pounds. In 2008 festivities were put on hold when a call from an oil support company explained that a single faulty 40GB hard drive was stopping production on an off-shore platform.  The caller made clear that every minute [...]

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What Should I Expect From A Professional Data Recovery Company?

So you’ve lost access to your critical data and now face the problem of which data recovery company to trust with your hard drive recovery. There are a confusing number and variety of data recovery companies out there – many of whom are only acting as agents for others and have no in-house data recovery [...]

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