Laboratory Data Recovery for Failed Drives, RAID Arrays, and SSDs

CBL Data Recovery Technologies is a Canadian data recovery specialist founded in 1993 and headquartered in Markham, Ontario. It began as a hard drive repair centre serving distributors and OEMs; recovery work overtook repair within two years, and the business was renamed CBL Data Recovery at the end of 1995. Customers range from individuals with a failed laptop drive to organizations that have lost production data and have no usable backup to fall back on.

The company works on media that has failed mechanically, electrically, or logically. Typical cases include head and motor failures, RAID arrays that have lost more members than their parity can tolerate, SSDs with controller or firmware faults, file system and file corruption, virus damage, accidental deletion or reformatting, and drives damaged by water, fire, or smoke. Physically damaged units are opened and imaged in the laboratory before the file system is reconstructed from the recovered image.

CBL has expanded from a single Canadian facility to laboratories in several countries, and describes its Canadian operation as the largest facility of its kind in the country. Engagements normally start with an evaluation of the media followed by a quoted recovery attempt, which suits organizations that need a defined cost before committing. Alongside laboratory service the company also offers data recovery software for logical cases that do not require opening the drive.