Computer disk retrieval has been an integral part of today's computer oriented market. As the market maintains and supports mechanical storage devices, problems will continue to occur. Systel understands the principals of hard disk design and implementation of today's leading disk drive and high capacity storage manufacturers. With this knowledge Systel has sustained drive recovered success rates above and beyond many leading competitors. Reasoning is that engineers and not technicians perform the actual retrieval. Systel's technicians are a valuable asset like many other companies technicians but a data engineer can decipher problems that technicians are just not used to solving due to their extensive background such as electrical engineering.

Systel has invaluable byte retrieval engineers to evaluate and perform the actual byte recovery. Systel receives failed drives attempts with the statement that the unit is catastrophically damaged or just unrecoverable but that is just not the case. This is where the limited experience and knowledge of a technician is relevant. When the retrieval project does not come online to allow data extraction the technician can be stumped if it exceeds his limitations. But most technicians are known to go above and beyond their training or Hard Drive Repair experience and this can have a significant impact of a future attempt.


IDE Hard Disk Drives
 - EIDE and IDE drives using 2.5" laptop and 3.5" Normal 40 pin ATA through Ultra ATA/66 interfaces from all manufacturers including: Areal, CDC, Compaq, Conner, Digital, Fuji, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Imprimis, Integral Peripherals, JTS, JVC, Kalok, Maxtor, Micropolis, Miniscribe, NEC, Plus, Priam, Quantum, Samsung, Seagate, TEAC, Toshiba, Western Digital, Xebec

SCSI Hard Disk Drives
 - SCSI drives using Normal SE, UW, Differential (WD), LVD, Hot Swappable (SCA) and 2.5" laptop interfaces from all manufacturers including: CDC, Compaq, Conner, Digital, Epson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Imprimis, Maxtor, Micropolis, NEC, Quantum, Rodime, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, Western Digital

Removable Media
 - Diskettes in 3.5" format with 720Kb and 1.44Mb, 5.25" format single and double sided to 1.2Mb capacity, CD ROM, CD R/W and DVD R/W disks, ISO Optical Formats 3.5": 128Mb, 230Mb and 640Mb, 5.25": 1.0Gb, 1.2Gb, 2.3Gb, 2.6Gb WORM and R/W cartridges, including multi-cartridge Jukebox storage systems, Imation SuperDisks 120Mb, Iomega ZIP disks 100Mb and 250Mb, ATA and SRAM Flashcards such as SmartMedia and CompactFlash

Tapes
 - 4mm DAT format including DDS, DDS-2 and DDS-3 tapes up to 24Gb capacity, 8mm Exabyte Digital tape including 112m and 160m tapes, Quantum DLT III and DLT IV tapes up to 80Gb capacity, Seagate AIT tapes up to 50GB capacity, OnStream ADR tapes up to 50Gb capacity, Travan TR-4 8Gb QIC tapes, Iomega Ditto 2Gb QIC tapes, QIC DC600 series tapes up to 4Gb capacity, QIC Mini-Cartridges DC2000-DC2120 with 40 to 80Mb capacity