Areas we cover · Crawley
Gatwick’s town runs on schedules. So does this lab.
Crawley works to timetables — flights, freight, Manor Royal's business parks — and when a drive or server fails here, the question is always the same: how fast, and how certain. Honest answers: your kit travels tracked to our lab, diagnosis is free and same-day on arrival, and business-down cases run priority through our working week.
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What reaches us from Crawley.
Something else? Run the triage →| The situation | Why it's a local regular | First move |
|---|---|---|
| A Manor Royal firm's server won't mount its array | Logistics and aviation suppliers run lean — one RAID, no spare | Priority case; send every member |
| A courier-battered laptop from a travelling week | Crawley's workforce flies, and laptops log the miles the hard way | Dropped-drive playbook applies |
| The office NAS that quietly lost a drive in spring | Degraded since April, noticed in August — the standard story | Power down before the second |
| A contractor's external with the only project copy | Site photos, CAD exports, invoices — one drive, zero backups | Recoverable if it stops now |
| Ransomware note on a Monday morning | Business-park networks make tempting targets | Isolate first — see our ransomware page |
How Crawley cases run.
Asked from Crawley, answered straight.
Do you have a Crawley office?
No — deliberately. One properly equipped lab beats a chain of counters, and Crawley's courier links make the distance irrelevant: kit handed over this morning is on the bench tomorrow, often the same day for urgent business cases.
Our business is down — how fast can you realistically move?
Flag it as business-down and the case runs priority: same-day diagnostic on arrival, continuous imaging Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm, and a realistic timeline the moment diagnosis makes one honest. Our emergency page explains exactly what determines speed.
Can you recover our server without the original hardware?
Yes — arrays reconstruct from drive images on our bench, no matching controller required. Send every member, labelled with bay positions, and leave rebuild decisions alone.
What should a Crawley business send first?
A phone call. Two minutes on what failed and what runs on it lets us agree the right route — which drives to pull, how to label, which courier — before anything moves.
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Crawley to the bench: one tracked parcel.
Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.