Australia's
Only Class-100
Clean Room you can see! |
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In
July 2006, PAYAM Data Recovery Pty Ltd expanded it's lab by relocating
it's NSW office to a new office space in North Sydney, NSW.
This
new office space was over 5 times larger than the old location and
allowed us to build a class-100 clean room that visitors can see.
This done due to popular demand by many of our customers who wanted
to see how data recovery was performed.
Our
Clean room was purpose built by Arden Pty Ltd, a professional clean
room manufacturer and provider. This cost nearly $100,000 and requires
regular maintenance. All equipment, materials and equipment were
transported from Melbourne to Sydney by Truck and staff from Arden
travelled to assemble the clean room. The task took 7 days and 6 nights to complete. Upon completion our clean room was independently certified
as exceeding class-100 standards.
Our
Clean Room is regularly sanitised by BACS Cleaning contractors,
specialists in cleaning clean rooms for IT and Medical use. They
visit our clean room regularly and clean the walls, floor, lights,
filters and all surfaces thoroughly with the use of special cleaning
agents and equipment designed for sanitising.
We
have the only class-100 clean room in Australia for data recovery
that you can see. The reason why other data recovery companies do
not show you they have a clean room is that many of them lie about
their facilities. Due to the cost, many data recovery companies do
not actually have or use a clean room. Some data recovery
companies ship their hard drives to larger data recovery companies
like us or outsource the work. So before you choose a data recovery
company ask to see their clean room. If they say 'it's private'
or 'its not open to the public' chances are - they don't have a
clean room. Even the largest data recovery companies in the world
with branches in Australia only use a laminar flow cabinet and do
not have a proper clean room. That is why we can recover data in
more cases than any other data recovery firm in Australia. We may not
be the cheapest, but we guarantee you - We are Australia's best!
Features
of our class-100 clean room:
- Large
HEPA Filter to provide pure air into the room.
- Special
Anti-Static Vinyl Floor with Copper laid under the floor, grounded
to earth.
- Visitor
Viewing Windows allowing our visitors to see our clean room and examine it.
- Anti-Static
Floor Treatment to reduce any possible static build up in the
floor.
- All
of the walls are made of a specially designed clear anti-static
vinyl. Simply touching the wall will discharge any static charges
from a human being. These walls were designed to be clear so our
visitors can see inside.
- The
room is pressurised and cool and clean air blows in through the
HEPA Filter and out of the room under the strip curtains
and through strategically placed air vent grills.
- We
are using a Class-10 Laminar Flow Cabinet which provides an ultra-clean
work environment where hard disks are actually opened and
internal repair work is done. This was custom built for us and
made to our measurements by Nu-Air, a French company that makes
only the best laminar flow cabinets in the world. These are also
used in the medical and semi-conductor industries. This cost us
over $10,000 and it is used inside our class-100 clean room to
provide the ultimate environment for safe data recovery work.
Most data recovery companies use a laminar flow cabinet in a normal
office environment or in a room with a normal air conditioner.
- A locked
door inside our clean room to prevent any unwanted disturbances
while a hard drive is being worked on.
- A fire
Sensor as required by law.
- CCTV
Security Cameras record all work done in our Class-100 Clean room
24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
- Supply
drawers containing anti-static gloves, anti-static lint free clean
room jumpsuits, face masks, eye goggles, lint-free anti-static
wipes and cleaning agents. These garments are all shipped from
the USA and designed especially for our use with hard drives.
- Tacky
Matt's - This is a set of sticky matts on the floor which our
engineers step on several times to remove any dirt or dust from
their feet in their clean room suit prior to entering our clean
area. These are numbered and each time it is used the strip is
peeled away revealing a fresh strip for next time. This prevents
any new dust being brought into our clean room by our staff after
they change into their clean room suit.
- Clean
room furniture - all the furniture used in our clean room has
been designed and sold for the purpose of being used in a clean
room. They are all heavy duty furniture designed not to gather
dust or create static. The laminar flow cabinet bench was specifically measured
and fitted for the stand.
- ESD
Safe Chair - The chair used by our data recovery engineers is
designed to remove any static electricity. Once an engineer sits
on this chair if there is any static charge on the person it is
removed instantly by this chair. It is designed for a ESD safe
clean room. The same type of chair used in factories for Intel
and AMD in CPU Manufacturing. This chair may look simple but cost
over $900! But at least it's comfortable.
Photos
Gallery:
Welcome
to our office - this is a photo of our North Sydney, NSW office.
As you walk in the clean room is viewable on the right.
This
is the external view of our clean room. The viewing windows allow
our visitors to look into our clean room through protective glass
shields and the other wall within this room made from anti-static
clear vinyl.
The man shown in this photo is one of our engineers, Paul
who is supervising a training session for our staff.
This
photo below shows the view from the reception area looking into
the clean room. One of our engineers is examining a hard drive looking
for scratches on the disk platter using a high power microscope.
Walking
inside our clean room, our engineers have a supply drawer unit containing cleaning agents for wiping
the work surfaces and the drawers contain anti-static gloves, lint-free
clean room suits, eye goggles and face masks. We also store other
supplies like lint-free anti-static wipes for cleaning disk platters.
Walking
into our clean room, our engineers step on tacky mats on the
floor then proceed through the strip curtains into the cleanest
area in our clean room.
In
this photo below you can see a large HEPA
filter on the ceiling which blows clean pure air into the room.
You
can also see our Nu-Air Class-10 Laminar Flow Cabinet. This contains
it's own HEPA Filter also blowing clean pure air into the work area
and blowing dust out. Some of the tools we use can also be seen
laid out on the work area.
The
photo below shows our head engineer and company director, Payam
Toloo examining a hard drive under a microscope checking for problems
with the heads on the disk. Some of our tools can also be seen
on the work bench including torx screwdrivers, tweezers and a high-powered
microscope.
Payam
Toloo is seen below using our multi-platter removal tool to transplant
multiple disk platters in our clean room from a hard drive with
a seized spindle motor. A very risky operation.We are very experienced
with this kind of procedure.
A
close up view of our multi-platter removal tool - this ensures the
platters do not rotate independently of each other which causes
the alignment to change. Don't try this at home! This is a specialised
tool only to be used by an experienced data recovery engineer or
you could cause more harm than good.
This
photo shows a special vacuum cleaner purchased for our own internal
maintenance of our clean room, this special vacuum cleaner has a
HEPA filter so when it's used it does not blow dusty dirty air out
of the exhaust vent of the vacuum cleaner.
Photo
below:
Meet Yurey the manequin. Yurey shows the clean room suit, eye goggles,
gloves and mouth guard used by our staff when the clean room is
not in use. Yurey has been named after a Russian data recovery engineer
we met on a business trip in Spain in 2006.
If
you have any questions please email: help@payam.com.au
or visit our office in North Sydney, NSW to view our clean room
for yourself.
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