What is a Cleanroom in a professional data recovery environment?

Have you ever heard about the Cleanroom? What is it and what we can do in a Cleanroom?

In this post we’ll talk about a specific Cleanroom for professional data recovery purposes.
A Cleanroom is a safe environment for hard drive and data recovery operations.
It is a facility created and utilized for hard disk analysis, heads and motor transplant operations.

We need a completely safe environment to open a hard disk or operating it to recover data, with extremely low particulates of dust or airborne organisms, very different from the external air.

We can think about the Clean Room as a surgery room for hard disk drive, where data recovery specialists operate on the hard drives for data recovery purposes.
It’s an area with controlled humidity and temperature levels to protect hard drive from contamination.
In general a Cleanroom needs a continuous influx of clean with a dust-clean action.

The air inside a Cleanroom is purified by special filters to exclude dust, while inside air is regularly recirculated by through fan filters units called HEPA filters, especially recommended for Cleanroom professional environments.

Hard drive opening in Cleanroom

What happens if you open a hard drive outside a Cleanroom?

A hard disk drive needs to be opened with proper tools. If you care about your data, don’t open your hard drive!

The air outside the cleanroom is not purified, it can be very dangerous for the hard drive during the opening action. Never and never open a hard drive by yourself, ask for a data recovery expert!
Do it in the cleanroom, with a professional data recovery company.

The real problem maybe it’s not the opening itself but where you are doing this.

The purpose of a cleanroom is limiting the presence of micro-particles in the air, creating a safe environment for hard drive (during opening and transplant operations). There so many differences between cleanroom based on the purpose. A cleanroom for hard drive is different from another one. The difference is based on the environment level control.

Only professional companies have real Cleanrooms, so it’s important, when our purpose is to recover data from our precious devices, to ask first and be sure about this.

A Cleanroom is not optional, but essential for mechanical work on hard drives!