February, 2010 | DataRecoveryUnion.com

Survey data from companies that specialize in data recovery may be used to investigate the primary causes for how data actually gets lost. Hard drive failure is the most common cause of data loss, accounting for 38 percent of data loss incidents.…

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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter W)

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Winchester Disk Former code name for an early IBM hard disk model, sometimes still used to refer to the technology and design of most traditional hard drives. Windows Microsoft’s series of operating systems for personal computers. Currently popular versions are Windows 95 and Windows 98.…

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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter V)

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Virus Scanner Software that is used to scan for and eradicate computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. Viterbi Detection An algorithm used in read channel technology that detects an entire sequence of data bits at a time and determines the most likely sequence of data bits by comparing actual sequence of data bit samples with sequences of possible data bit sample to accurately detect that data written to disk.…

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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter U)

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Ultra SCSI Provides 20 MB/s transfers over an 8-bit bus or 40 MB/s transfers over a 16-bit Wide SCSI bus. Also known as Fast-20 SCSI, this feature is most commonly found in SCSI-3 drives. Ultra DMA/33 A high-speed host data transfer feature that transfers data at 33.3 MB per second.…

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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter T)

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TPI (Tracks per inch) The number of tracks written within each inch of the disk’s surfaces, used to measure how closely the tracks are packed on a disk surface. Also known as track density. Tagged Queuing The ability of the drive to receive multiple I/O processes from each initiator.…

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Data Recovery Glossary (Letter S)

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SCA-2 SCA-2 (Single Connector Attach) interface incorporates a grounding contact, blindmate connector, direct plug misalignment tolerance, ESD protection, hot swap capability, and backplane connector options for SCSI devices. SCA-2 is commonly called the 80-pin SCSI connector. SCSI Configure Automatically (SCAM) Allows users to attach SCSI devices without worrying about configuration options.…

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