Cases from · Barry
Barry data recovery. The plant winds down; the records still have to exist.
Barry is a town of 56,605 people and the seat of the Vale of Glamorgan, a county borough of 131,800 with no motorway. Chemicals still run round the clock: Dow counts about 850 employees and contractors on site, Cabot around 95, and ABP has worked the docks since 1981. The basic siloxanes plant starts shutting down in mid-2026 and decommissioning runs to 2029, though the rest of the Dow site carries on — and a plant coming apart is where drives get pulled, powered off and mislaid. Send it insured; looking at it costs nothing.
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What Barry sends us.
Not listed here? Try the triage →| What shows up | Why it lands here | Do this now |
|---|---|---|
| A plant control PC that has gone quiet | Process settings and batch records live on that one machine | Send it over, and say what is held up behind it |
| A file server in a Barry Docks office | Weighbridge tickets, manifests and a decade of email on one box | We handle the data, IT the hardware |
| A seafront DVR that stopped recording | Season after season, the same disc is written over until it dies | Pull the drive out of the unit and leave it be |
| A drive kept in a damp store near the water | Salt and condensation reach the board long before anyone looks | Cleaning that up is bench work, not kitchen work |
| A sole trader's laptop dead the week VAT is due | No spare machine, and nobody else to pass it to | Book it in and give us the deadline |
Four things worth knowing in Barry.
Questions we get from Barry.
Is Barry Island or Cadoxton covered too?
Yes, and so is the rest of the Vale — Penarth, Dinas Powys, Rhoose, Cowbridge. The parcel travels, not you, so a CF63 postcode sits as close to the bench as a CF62 one, and a weekday posting usually lands the next morning.
Can plant and laboratory records be recovered?
Usually, yes. Control-room PCs, instrument logs, QA records and CAD drawings sit on ordinary drives and fail in the ordinary ways — heat, hours, a dead board. Tell us which files an auditor will ask for and those go to the front of the queue.
The drive has sat in a damp store near the docks. Does that matter?
Tell us at booking. Salt air and condensation corrode a board long before anyone notices, and kitchen remedies make it worse: no switching it on repeatedly, no hairdryer, no bag of rice, no radiator. A drive nobody has tried to revive does better.
Where does a drive from Barry actually go?
To the intake lab in Bristol — about 56 miles by road, near enough an hour and ten minutes on the M4. Post it fully insured, or bring it to the lab door on a weekday. Assessment is free and the trip home is on us.
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Barry: send it over, and we look the day it lands.
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