The Most Actual Problems that May Need Information Recovery from RAID Arrays
Posted on October 3rd, 2008
The composition runs about Dynamic Disk Recovery and all the things linked with it. If you use embedded Raid controller, it may demand the Raid array recovery service. So, look at 1 instance. You have installed an embedded chip set controller from AMD SB 600 with the equipped Raid array. You're glad because all the things acted without any problems, but suddenly the moment of your personal computer renewal has come. And you decided to choose Intel Core CPU. You've settled what motherboard to select and you find there a built-in ICH9R controller, you've relocated your HDD, but Raid array isn't identified yet. There're two ways out:
1. One of the methods is to get new hard drives and reequip on them a new Raid array. This would attract the occasion when you need to transport your old data on a new hard drive and it will take much time to do it and to recover preceding Raid array.
2. Or you can appeal to a “File restoration lab” where your Raid array would be recovered for some certain amount of money and during little term by facilities of data transfer. And in the situation when a person use outer Raid array the difficulty would vanish by itself. It occurs so because it is required just to transport a controller with hard disk drives. One more problem is that today there are a lot of built-in semi-hardware Raid controllers in the market. The only Raid arrays that may be restored by these controllers are 1, 0+1, 5 and they cannot utilize the other means of restore.
“Mirroring” as 1 of the ways that will guarantee protection to you. There's an opinion that the usage of stripe (Raid 0) divests people of data restoration and people who do not use it are strictly protected from the Raid arrays recovery. But there're problems such as electricity defaults, driver difficulties in operating system, virus attacks that can make you lose all your files from all the hard disks and no “mirroring” will help you. And what would you do in this case? The only point you have to do in this case is to strive to restore all the files from Raid array or recover your Raid array in whole. The best thing that can be done is of course bringing your personal computer to a file recovery specialist or getting professional Raid restoration software. Follow these steps and you will be capable to protect and restore all your information from Raid arrays. (more…)