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Six Years of Research Almost Lost to Antarctica’s Harsh Tundra

Case Study: UPENN Stars and Galaxies Research Project

Cliente:
BLAST, UPENN

Tipo de dispositvo:
200GB Hard Drive

Plazo de entrega:
2 Business Days*

Profession:
Scientist

Ubicación:
Antarctica

Six Years of Research Almost Lost to Antarctica’s Harsh Tundra

When the BLAST parachute became tangled during landing, it dragged the space telescope and hard drive 120 miles over the icy tundra destroying the equipment and its data.

Situación de pérdida de datos

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania seeking answers to some of the most important questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies, and star clusters, set forth with several other institutions on a six-year project called BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope). During the second flight for BLAST launched from a remote station in Antarctica, an unmanned balloon carrying the most powerful space telescope of its kind floated into the stratosphere at altitudes of 120,000 feet and ultimately crashed on the edge of an icy ravine on January 1, 2007.

The 200GB IDE hard drive onboard BLAST that recorded all the new data was salvaged by a rescue team, but once back in the lab it did not boot up. A small amount of data was streamed back to the researchers during the flight, but the bulk of the information (about 160GB of binary files) was lost. The scientists turned to DriveSavers to recover the data and help them unlock their new discoveries.

Six years of work would have gone down the tubes, not only would the experiment have been destroyed, we would’ve lost invaluable data about early galaxies in their formation stages between 7-10 billion years ago or so. Thanks to DriveSavers, we can analyze the data and share our discoveries with the rest of the world.
– University of Pennsylvania scientist Mark Devlin

Solución de recuperación de datos

The badly damaged drive was delivered to our Certified ISO Class 5 Cleanroom, a dust-free environment containing highly filtered air that is 10,000 times cleaner than normal office air. DriveSavers cleanroom engineers opened the drive’s casing, assessed the physical damage, and repaired the mechanics of the drive to gain access to and make a clean image of the data. Using years of experience combined with proprietary software and the most advanced data recovery techniques, the logical engineering team rebuilt the entire data set to perfection.

Resumen

DriveSavers is the most progressive, successful data recovery company in the world. Since 1985, we have successfully recovered data from hundreds of thousands of hard drives and other storage media that have been exposed to extreme cold weather, wet snow, power surges, mechanically failed, been physically damaged, infected by viruses or worse. Our engineers work closely with major drive manufacturers to keep pace with changing data storage technology and have developed data recovery tools and techniques so advanced we consistently rescue data others deem lost forever.

*DriveSavers Standard Turnaround times are 1-2 Business days, Economy 5-7 Business days, and Priority 24/7 service – on occasion, unique substances require more time and are approved by the customer.

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Mike Cobb, Director de Ingeniería y Seguridad de la Información
Como Director de Ingeniería, Mike Cobb gestiona las operaciones diarias del Departamento de Ingeniería, incluyendo las recuperaciones físicas y lógicas de medios rotativos, SSDs, dispositivos inteligentes y unidades flash. También supervisa las labores del equipo de Investigación y Desarrollo para ls tecnologías de almacenamiento pasadas, presentes y futuras. Mike fomenta el crecimiento y se asegura de que cada uno de los departamentos y sus ingenieros continúen adquiriendo conocimientos en su campo. Cada ingeniero de DriveSavers ha recibido capacitación para garantizar que la recuperación completa y satisfactoria de los datos sea su máxima prioridad.

Como Director de Seguridad de la Información, Mike supervisa la ciberseguridad en DriveSavers, lo que incluye el mantenimiento y la actualización de certificaciones de seguridad como el cumplimiento de SOC 2 Tipo II, la coordinación de la política de seguridad de la empresa y la formación en ciberseguridad de los empleados.

Mike se incorporó a DriveSavers en 1994 y es licenciado en Informática por la Universidad de California, Riverside.

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