Hardware & media
What to actually own, before you need it
The Tools section covers the concepts and professional-grade equipment behind a recovery. This section is more ordinary: the everyday physical things worth owning — the right enclosure, the right cable, a genuine backup drive, a card that doesn't fail mid-shoot — that keep a routine drive purchase or a routine card swap from turning into a case in this catalog.
HDD vs. SSD vs. NVMe
BeginnerHow the three actually differ for recovery odds when something goes wrong — not just which one benchmarks faster.
Drive Cages & RAID Enclosures
Buyer's guideWhat to look for, and the one spec sheet detail that decides whether a box is genuinely a RAID device or just four drives sharing a case.
USB/SATA & NVMe Adapters
Buyer's guideConnecting a bare drive safely without a full enclosure — and the one situation where reaching for one of these is the wrong move entirely.
Antistatic Handling Basics
BeginnerThe real rules for handling a bare drive or circuit board, briefly — not fear-mongering, just what static discharge actually does and doesn't do.
Backup Drive Picks
Buyer's guideThe 3-2-1 backup rule made concrete: actual drives at three different price points, and what job each one is actually for.
Memory Card Care & Picks
Buyer's guideWhy cheap, no-name cards are where a disproportionate share of this catalog's camera and drone cases start — and which cards are actually worth the extra cost.