What is Clean Room?

A Data Recovery clean room is an environmentally controlled space, which is free of contaminants, such as dust or bacteria. The high-tech hardware, such as ICs and hard drives are manufactured or can be opened for internal servicing in the clean room.
Data Recovery Clean Room Technology

A Clean room is an environment, which is maintained at the controlled temperature and humidity (70F, 45% RH) to ensure that sensitive equipment is at no risk of contamination. The lab is maintained with high-performance air filters, with the help of which, the airborne particulates, contaminants and pollutants are controlled. This high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtering system helps in minimizing the activities that are responsible for generating dust particles. The walls and ceilings are made of plastic; external source of lightning and proper ventilation is ensured to permit clean and dust-free air such that no hindrance is caused during the data recovery.

Fundamental rules

a) Contaminants from the environment outside the clean room must not be introduced into the controlled area.
b) The equipments within the controlled environment must not give birth to contaminants.
c) Accumulation of contaminants in the controlled environment must not be allowed.
d) Already existing contaminants must be eliminated to the maximum extent and quickly.

Clean room technicians, before entering the controlled environment, must wear gloves, masks, head covering, overshoes and special "bunny" suits to prevent contamination. Clean room operators, sometimes, also pass through the an air blast upon entering to ensure minimum contamination.

Stellar Information Systems Ltd., a company with over a decade of experience in data recovery software & services, has an ultra-modern Class-100 clean room facility in Gurgaon. Stellar's Data Recovery Services (DRS) division operates from this environmentally controlled dust-free area to ensure safe and effective recovery from damaged hard disks.

Data Recovery Clean room standards

Clean room specifications are defined according to the particle diameter and number of particles per unit volume, which comes under maximum allowable limit. Cleanliness class is a standard used to determine the level of cleanliness in the air of the controlled environment. Federal Standard 209 E form is established, which figures out the airborne particulate cleanliness classes. Six different classes are defined to determine clean room cleanliness i.e Class 1 (ISO3), Class 10 (ISO4), Class 100 (ISO 5), Class 1,000 (ISO 6), Class 10,000 (ISO 7), and Class 100,000 (ISO 8). A class 100 clean room maintains less than one hundred particles per cubic foot, of size larger than half (0.5) micron.