Fujitsu Hard Drives

Fujitsu offers a complete package of high intensity, performance-oriented hard disk drives.
The Fujitsu hard drives are specially used in IT businesses and manufacturing industries. The hard disk drives possessr a storage capacity of more than 75 GB per inch square. Fujitsu manufactures the following:

2.5 inch, RPM Enterprise hard disk drives
2.5 inch, 4200 RPM Mobile hard disk drives
2.5 inch, 5400 Mobile hard disk drives
3.5 inch, 10k RPM Enterprise hard disk drives
3.5 inch, 15k RPM Enterprise hard disk drives
Handy Drives

Fujitsu Hard Disk Drive Failures:
Mechanical Failure – This type of failure usually goes unnoticed for some time as the computer remains functional even after the write heads of the disk drive collide with the rotating platter surface of the drive. The failure comes into focus when there is a ‘head crash’ of the entire system and the computer goes blank.
Another common problem area is the speed at which the drive spins. Fujitsu drives spinrnat a fast rate causing the head to bounce against the drive and consequently destroying the drive’s magnetic coating.
Electronic Failure – The Fujitsu hard drive suffers data loss when the computer undergoes an electronic failure. There is a power spike or power surge which causes the drive to read effectively. Fujitsu hard disk drives have two main electronic concerns:
Temperature variations causing a short circuit and computer failure
Defective circuit board causing the hard drive to fail and not read data
Logical Errors – Fujitsu hard disk drives are vulnerable to the type of information stored on them. The hard drive fails to read and store data when faulty, defective and problematic data is stored on it such as a faulty file allocation table. The Fujitsu drive also fails to store information in cases of reformatting and overwriting.
Human Error – More than 75 percent of failure of Fujitsu hard drives occur solely on account of human error like exposure to adverse climactic conditions, holiday injuries, inadequate protection of the drive, no backup.
Data Recovery:
1. Ontrack
According to Ontrack Team Data Recovery, the Fujitsu drive faces some particular faults which are not common to other disk drive formats:
IDE Cable Malfunction
Power Connector Problems
Inappropriate BIOS configuration
Computer Virus Attack
The Ontrack team believes that the occurrence of any of the above faults in a Fujitsu disk drive can lead to several negative consequences:
Primary or Secondary hard disk failure
Inability to access drive ‘X’
Boot drive becomes inaccessible
Computer experiences failure to read keyboard commands
Electro-mechanical failure causing grinding and clacking sounds
Corrupted data
Lost data
Permanently deleted files
Ontrack Data Recovery Management Software:
This software has two primary purposes:
Maintain the computer system – in other words, the software ensures that the computer is functioning and not suffering from any type of failure.
Prevent data loss and damage
In this regard, the team recommends a few initial steps by the user before starting the data recovery software.
Erase or delete sensitive and confidential data
Make a preliminary report about the computer’s status after disk failure
Data recovery tools include:
Ontrack Disk Manager
Ontrack Data Advisor
2. Data Clinic Data Recovery :
Usually, users prefer personal handling of the disk drives. However, the Data Recovery support and technical team recommends that the user come to the centre’s helpdesk and explain the problem. According to the support team, a Fujitsu hard disk drive can only suffer due to:
mechanical hard drive failures
platter damage caused by a head crash
dish reformatting and overwriting
deleted files due to disk partitions
liquid damage caused by water, coffee or any beverage
virus contamination
software corruption
physical damage caused by fire or flood
electrostatic discharge
The support team lists the various steps involved in data recovery.
Defective drive is logged into the computer system of the company
Free evaluation of hard disk drive to ensure the amount and severity of data lost
A copy of the defective or corrupted data is made
User is upgraded on the initial assessment of the disk drive
Amount or fees incurred is charged to user
Data recovery software tools are used
On recovery, data is transferred onto another media format to ensure safety and data usability.
Fujitsu hard drives are increasingly being used on laptops and other handy devices. These miniature drives are ‘bus powered’ with a 2.0 interface.