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There are many people that are both curious and skeptical on how can tape compete with their counterpart, harddisk drive. When the tape lost its data, it have to perform a tape data recovery immediately so as to prevent further losses that could have an negative impact on the business operations of organizations.

Even with a solid plastic casing protect the tape within, the tape cartridge like any other storage devices, can be damaged from smoke, water, or dropping the cartridge from high levels. Extreme exposure to high temperatures, its internal mechanism of the tape might fails, thus causing errors located within the tape's surface.

There are various cases of damages namely from water damage, missing oxide, folds in the tape, blade damage, bad oxide or even frictional damage, when tape data are being recovered. The fact that there are 2 types of tape data recovery, physical and logical recovery. Read on to find out more how you too can engage in the recovery techniques, if you are using tape as a storage medium.

What is needed for a physical tape recovery?

When there is a physical damage on the tape, a physical tape recovery is applicable. Physical damage such as cartridge crack, tape damage, failure in the internal mechanism of the tape and etc may prevents the data from being read efficiently.

Other physical damage such as the deterioration of magnetic coatings on the actual tape surface, broken wheels or cartridge housings, folded tape, broken tape, stretched tape, and any other damages connected with the actual tape of the machinery. The damages mentioned here are not exhaustive and gives the reason why a physical recovery is needed.

Some trained technicians that are dealing in tape recovery guarantee a high recovery rate as high as 98 percent. With such high success rate, it is obvious they know what they are doing and are very good at what they do. Do you agree?

When you have dropped your tape into mud, water or simply dropped from high levels, and felt that there could be some damaged done to the tape. It is important to get the tape to those recovery companies and get them repair as soon as possible.

Logical recovery

Did you know that logical tape data recovery is more expensive due to it complexity and lots of process to take note.

We need logical recovery is when the data was successfully recorded on the tape, however for some unknown reasons, if it cannot be read. You have to quickly find a way to solve this issue. Also, it does not show any visible form of damage to the tape and the exterior of the tape itself.

In order for the technician to execute the recovery procedures properly, he has to use multiple versions of the tape recovery software and take many "passes" at the tape using it.

You can easily pieced back the damage or lost tape data, but the rate of success of logical tape data recovery is much lower than physical tape recovery.

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