Clean-room
standards
Aero Data Recovery, Inc. utilizes class-100 designed
clean-flow benches to achieve the best-possible
environment for data recovery.
In order to understand what a clean room does and
why it's important for data recovery labs, it helps
to understand a few basic facts about hard drive
construction.
The inside of a hard drive consist of many components,
including one or more heads which read and write
information to the platters of the drive. The platters
are magnetic disks, and they're extremely sensitive,
both physically and magnetically.
When a drive is opened in an unsafe environment
and exposed to pollutants, the platters can become
contaminated. Even a single speck of dust can be
enough to potentially ruin a hard drive, making
any sort of data recovery impossible, even on the
sectors of the drive that weren't touched by the
dust.
No room cleaned by hand is a fit environment for
hard drive data recovery. Even when dust isn't visible,
contaminants still exist, and will cause irreversible
damage when they come into contact with the platters
of a hard drive.
A class 100 clean room is a room that employs powerful
air filters to become virtually free of contaminants.
The "100" means less than one hundred
microscopic contaminants per square foot of space,
and many hard drive companies and data recovery
companies agree that any room with a greater number
of contaminants is unfit for physical data recovery.
Clean rooms are very expensive to set up and maintain.
Data recovery engineers must take extreme precautions
not to introduce new contaminants into a clean room,
and regular maintenance and check-ups are also necessary.
For added security, some data recovery companies
such as Aero Data Recovery, Inc. utilize clean-flow
benches. These are specialized data recovery desks
that further filter air and provide a safer environment
for working with the exposed platters of a hard
drive.
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