Clean rooms are used in many industries where environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, airborne contaminates and even light can be detrimental to processes and procedures for manufacturing and repair of sensitive electronic components.

The clean room must be constructed of sealed materials to prevent migration of contaminants such as volatiles from adhesives and particulate matter. The rooms have high-end filtration systems and air management equipment that in all cases create positive air pressure inside the chamber. These hard drive clean rooms can cost in excess of £750,000 to construct and equip.

These rooms are a necessary facility in the data recovery industry because of the close tolerance mechanisms found inside the latest hard disk cavity. The diagram here shows relative proportions of these tolerances.

Clean room classifications are standardised classes based on airborne particle counts. For example, a class 100 clean room can have 750 particles per cubic foot that measure 0.2 µm, 300 at 0.3 µm and so on. Constant monitoring and maintenance of the environment is obviously an important aspect of this technology.

Data Recovery UK Limited offers in-house clean room environments that meet or exceed requirements for all hard drive procedures at all our data recovery labs worldwide.