US–based data recovery firm claims world’s most sophisticated cleanroom
DriveSavers, a California-based data recovery services firm has invested over $2m (€1.35m) to build one of the most technologically advanced and largest certified cleanrooms dedicated to data recovery.
The Novato-based company’s cleanroom environment features an ISO 5 (Class 100) cleanroom and three separate mixed flow “Clean Zones” (Class 1,000, Class 10,000 and Class 100,000 gradient levels).
“Due to the increasing demand from our corporate customers for enterprise RAID recoveries, we needed to expand our cleanroom facility to manage our growth for today and the future,” said Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers. “As hard drive manufacturers continue to push the limits of data storage capacities, we are committed to staying ahead of the curve by investing in the leading cleanroom equipment and technologies. With a cleanroom of this caliber and size, our engineers, who are the best in the industry, have the facility and tools surpass the industry standard for data.”
The dust-free, temperature and humidity-controlled environments protect sensitive data storage components, while they are open and vulnerable, from being damaged by even the slightest trace of contaminants, magnetic fields or excessive air particles.
At DriveSavers, each static-free “Clean Zone” is dedicated to a specific data recovery task and the pristine environment maximises the chances of successful data recovery. An integral part of the cleanroom, new “triage” areas have been constructed where engineers decontaminate, clean, and disassemble external hard drives and computers. The new cleanroom and triage areas provide DriveSavers partners and customers with increased service capacity along with the highest success rate, fastest turnaround time and continued authorisation from major hard drive manufacturers and computer makers to work on drives under warranty.
The cleanroom and triage areas were put to test and proved their value this summer during the devastating floods in Iowa. The Cedar Rapids School District’s Graphics & Printing department, servicing 42 schools and administration offices, sent in hard drives that were submerged in seven feet of polluted water for three days. The drives contained curriculum for the upcoming year, school forms, student handbooks, newsletters and files from the administrative offices. DriveSavers engineers were able to utilise the new cleanroom and recovered everything.