There does seem to be a significant number of these drives that require clean room recovery, but that could be because so many of them are portable and subject to poor handling. This led to many data recovery shops complaining about these new hard drives, and many still complain that they do not like recovering Seagate mobile hard drives. ![]() If a data recovery tech was not keeping up with research and training, they could easily put a recovery from a Rosewood drive at risk. Once the tools supported firmware repair and modification, we could see some significant changes to firmware that impacted standard procedures for recovering data from a Seagate hard drive. This caused some problems for many DR labs at first, but eventually the developers of popular DR tools, like ACE Lab, added new features to support the Rosewood family. If you browse forums where data recovery pros gather and share information, something you might have seen was the initial delay in the ability of the top data recovery tools to handle firmware repairs on the Rosewood family. Of course, this could just be coincidence, but we are also seeing 90% recovery rates now on the 20 models that arrive at our data recovery lab (excluding DOA*). It’s purely speculation, but I think Seagate may have changed something in the manufacturing process, possibly the platter coating, but we see fewer DOA* cases in the newer models. In the early days of these drives (2016 models) we saw a number of catastrophic failures when the drives were dropped. Seagate makes these drives available to OEMs like HP, Dell, and Apple they are available from retailers as replacement drives for laptops and they are very common inside the Seagate Backup Plus USB enclosures. The Firecuda is a solid state hybrid drive (SSHD). The two most popular models seem to be the ST1000LM035 and ST2000LM007, but we are starting to see model ST1000LM048 as well as some Firecuda models like the ST1000LX015. Over the past two years, we have seen Seagate Rosewood mobile drives become one of the most popular disk drives in the market, and in our hard drive recovery lab. ![]() ![]() One of the most popular hard disk drive families today is the Seagate Mobile series, often referred to by data recovery engineers as the Rosewood family.
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