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HARD DRIVE CLONING AND REPAIRING

Get the technology used by data recovery centers and government agencies across the country right here on Kauai.  We can repair all disk defects caused by normal wear. Drives with excessive mechanical damage may not be repairable.

ADVANCED CAPABILITIES
· CLONE ENTIRE HARD DRIVES
· FACTORY TEST SYSTEM ANALYZES DRIVES
· COMBO IDE/SCSI SYSTEM BULK TRANSFERS DATA BETWEEN INTERFACES
· WE SUPPORT EVERY INTERFACE: SCA, SCSI, IDE, E-IDE, UDMA, EVEN 2.5" NOTEBOOK DRIVES!!
· FORENSIC COPY MODE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
· DOD-9220 GOVERNMENT ERASE FUNCTION
· NOW SUPPORTS ATA-6 DRIVES OVER 137GB CAPACITY
· ELIMINATES BAD SECTORS AND RESTORES DRIVE PERFORMANCE

CLONE YOUR DRIVES
Make a perfect clone of your hard drive. Why spend hours installing and formatting drives when you can be up and running almost instantly?  Set up any SCSI or IDE drive with all your original software. Give it to us with a second drive and we'll copy the entire drive faster and more accurately than is possible on any PC!  We can even bulk transfer data between different interfaces. Copy entire IDE hard disk images on SCSI drives or vice-versa.  Running out of disk space?  Let us copy your existing drive to a larger one.  Copy your 3Gig to a 9Gig, 20Gig or what ever size you want.  Keep your partitions and drive structure in tact.  No need to worry about reinstalling your operating systems, configurations, applications, drivers, or data files.  Just plug in your new drive and go, saving you hours of frustration.


TEST & REPAIR DRIVES
Don't throw those used drives away!  Breathe new life into old drives. Reassign and eliminate bad SCSI blocks and most IDE defects. Here's how we do it:  first, a precise drive analysis system scans the disk surfaces for errors.  Defects are mapped around and effectively "erased."  The built-in error-correcting system then "trains" the disk drive to permanently avoid these defective areas. Your data is stored only on the safe areas of the disk.  Capacity is reduced by only an insignificant amount and the drive works flawlessly once again.


SUPPORTS ALL MAJOR INTERFACES
IDE, ENHANCED IDE, NARROW SCSI, WIDE SCSI, ULTRA SCSI and SCA.


Q&A
I backup our system every night so why should I have a clone made?
Should I clone all of my systems?
I'm running a RAID system. Do I still need a clone?


I backup our system every night so why should I have a clone made?
This service is not intended to replace your normal backup procedure. Should your hard drive go down you would simply swap out that drive, reload your latest backup and your're up and running. Without the clone handy, you would have to find a replacement drive, install the operating system with drivers, redo your configuration, and reload all your software before you could reload your last backup. Now consider this, is a copy of your operating system software, programs, and drivers for your systems hardware readily available?  Did you keep any notes on your system configuration?  What about all the updates to your system since you've been using it?  This process could take anywhere from 4 hours to two weeks to complete and most would require some professional help to get this done.  Can your business afford to be down for a few hours?   Days?  Weeks?

Should I clone all of my systems?
No.  In most cases you will only have a primary server or workstation that is most important to your business.  That is the system that you would want to have cloned.  If it went down your business would suffer.  Consider it an insurance policy without the recurring monthly payments.

I'm running a RAID system, do I still need a clone?
A RAID system is the safest way to protect yourself against a disk failure.  But with today's constant threat of viruses, a RAID system could easily be taken down as well.  While a RAID system spreads your operating system over multiple disks in it's effort to recover from a disk failure, any virus that enters your system could spread throughout your entire disk bank.  If this was to happen to a RAID system, the only way to ensure a clean system would be to rebuild from a master drive that is not infected.

Ebbtide Kauai LLC
P.O. Box 717
Kalaheo, HI 96741
Phone/Fax: (808) 332-6487
ebbtide@kauailink.net

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