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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.

How can a tape cartridge be damaged? It can be damaged from smoke, dropping into the water, or simply just dropping from high levels. It can also be damaged from the exposure from the sun, extreme temperature, internal mechanism failure, and errors that are located found within the tape’s file span.

With more organizations using tape as a storage media, damages done by water, absence of oxide, folds in the tape material, sliced edges, bad oxide and even frictional damage tape data can be recovered from tapes. There are generally two types of tape data recovery. These are known as physical recovery and logical recovery.

What is needed for a physical tape recovery?

When there is a physical damage to the tape, a physical tape data recovery will then be required. It can be due to the damage done physically to the plastics, cartridge, or the tape itself from preventing the data to be read effectively.

Another reason for physical recovery can be due to the deterioration of magnetic coatings on the actual tape surface, broken or cracked wheels, twisted or folded tape, creased tape edges, broken tape, stretched tape, and etc.

Most places that are dealing in tape data recovery guarantee a high physical recovery rate of 98%. They claimed that they have trained professionals to execute this type of task.

You may quickly need to bring your storage device to those highly trained recovery experts for recovery procedures, once you felt that you have damaged your tape storage device if it has been dropped in the mud, water or fall from high levels.

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 when the data is unable to read or write even though it has been successfully recorded onto the tape itself. Or there are no visible form of damage to the tape and the tape body itself.

The recovery process requires the technician to use multiple versions of tape recovery software.

Using the recovery methods mentioned above, you can easily pieced back lost tape data. But the success rate of logical tape data recovery is much lower than the physical tape data recovery.

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