RAID Data recovery.
Important! Do not remove any drives or attempt to rebuild the RAID if your data is important.Our RAID recovery service allows recovery of data from all RAID configurations. Our experience with recovering hard disk drives has given us all of the necessary expertise for recovering data from RAID. If a RAID is tampered with prior to receipt then this can seriously slow the process or even make the recovery impossible. Keeping the original setup is the key to a fast and successful recovery.
Operating systems supported.
We can recover from all Server operating systems including Windows NT 4.0 server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS X Server, Ubuntu Server Edition, SUSE Linux Enterprise Sever (SLES), CentOS, BSD, AIX and many more.
RAID Partitions.
Partitions include all formats such as NTFS, NTFS5, HFS+, HFS, FAT32, FAT16, FAT, EXT3FS, EXT2FS, UFS, ReiserFS and many others.
RAID Types.
Explaining the different RAID types can be a lengthy process, so we will just highlight the most common.
- RAID 0 (Striping) - Not really a "True" RAID because it is NOT fault-tolerant. Requires a minimum of 2 drives to setup.
- RAID 1 (Mirroring) - This is a good entry-level redundant system, since only two drives are required.
- RAID 5 - If setup correctly with parity and a hot spare this RAID is best for both performance and fault tolerance. Requires a minimum of 3 drives to implement.
Further information regarding RAID types is available follow the link on our website.
RAID Hardware.
There are many RAID hardware configurations and controllers, too many to mentions all. Here are a few of the common ones.
- Xserve
- IBM Blade Server
- Dell PowerEdge
- HighPoint RocketRAID
- Adaptec
- Promise
- Infortrend Corp
- Lacie Big disk
- Lacie Bigger disk
- Buffalo TeraStation
There are also many other third party RAID controllers and hardware, including many onboard SATA and SCSI RAID.
Failure Modes and Types.
The most common hardware failure within a RAID are the hard drives themselves. In some cases if one drive becomes defective you will not be able to access your data. Other hardware such as the controllers and the RAID power unit can also cause a failure. Software failures such as corrupt partitions, accidentally deleted data or even a hard disk drive mistakenly reformatted can prevent access to your RAID.