ReStor inaugurates first HDD and SSD Repair Facility in India

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Facility for the test and repair of hard disk drives and solid-state drives came into being with the launch of a state-of-the-art ReStor in Delhi-NCR. The facility incorporates a completely sterile clean room type environment with electro-static discharge (ESD) safe set-up, a combination of indigenously developed testing bays/racks and imported diagnostics jigs, and is backed by a highly trained, experienced technical team.

Sharad Srivastava, the Founder-Director of dStor Technologies, said, "The Hard Disk Drive is one of the most fragile items in the computer, requiring extreme care in handling and protection from shock, vibration and Electro Static Discharge. Among other reasons, the complex requirements of the repair process and the lack of scale resulted in a situation that no facility came up in India for the test and repair of HDDs. Now, with the scenario fast changing, we have set up the first fully-equipped centre for the purpose."

Presently, most in-warranty faulty drives are exported out of the country for repair, while out-of-warranty drives are largely junked. This puts a heavy eco-burden on a rapidly-growing sub-segment of electronics hardware, not to mention being time consuming, expensive and a restrictive practice. Moreover, all major HDD manufacturers have reduced the warranty period on desktop and mobile drives in recent years.

Apart from these factors, consolidation in the HDD industry has left a limited number of manufacturers in the business. The Average Unit Price for a hard disk has more than doubled in the last two years and there could be a segment of consumers looking for cost-effective alternatives......See More