Ever thrown a Western Digital hard drive into a campfire? Well, PCMag’s executive editor Jeremy Kaplan did while on his vacation. Why? He wanted to see if Ontrack could save his barbecued data.
For Ontrack, it was just another week at the office. Apparently the company recovers data from fire-damaged drives all the time. And that’s one of the easier tasks. In 2003, Ontrack engineers successfully recovered files from a drive that arrived in Minnesota with a bullet hole in it. A few weeks later, they salvaged a disk that had spent three months at the bottom of a lake.
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