What is RAID?
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Discs. The most common type of RAID arrays are RAID-0, RAID-1, and RAID-5. Now, RAID-6 configuration is also becoming common.
What is RAID Data Recovery:
RAID may be considered as fault tolerant; however is not invulnerable to data loss. The best way to deal with RAID array failure is to "leave it like that" and call a professional Data Recovery Company for further evaluation and recovery.
Disk Doctors specializes in data recovery for every available RAID array on the market including RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and can handle other configuration as well. Regardless of the array size, configuration, operating system, or platform of your RAID array, our Adaptec Certified RAID recovery engineers can recover your data, even if all other means of retrieval have failed. RAID data recovery is one of the most complex recovery processes that we perform at Disk Doctors. We at Disk Doctors welcome RAID arrays that other data recovery companies have unsuccessfully attempted to recover data on. The engineers at Disk Doctors take such challenging RAID recovery jobs on routinely and are ready to recover as much data as possible from any RAID array.
Raid Failures Situation:
In many cases, human error has made an already malfunctioning RAID array perform even worse. We have encountered the "let me try for myself" results from both customers and ordinary computer technicians, which actually aggravate the failure and results in unrecoverable loss of critical data. The primary causes for failure of RAID arrays are due to the reasons mentioned below.
- RAID controller failure
- RAID configuration lost
- Accidental reconfiguration
- Accidental re initialization of the RAID array
- Multiple drives failure
- Missing RAID partitions
- Reformatted RAID partitions
- Virus Damage
RAID Recovery Process:
Disk Doctors engineers treat every RAID recovery as a priority. Once the server or drives reach our lab, our engineers will evaluate them and find out the specific problem with the RAID array. In the evaluation process, we will determine whether the RAID has logical corruption in the array structure, or if the drives in the RAID array have suffered physical damage. In the case of logical corruption, our engineers will make a raw image onto Disk Doctors' storage media, and then destripe the array using proprietary tools (both software and hardware). This process can be repeated several times to improve the results. In the case of physical drive damage, each drive will be taken to clean room and repaired, then a raw image will be taken, and the destriping process will be done on the entire RAID array member drives.
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