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Server Hard Disk / RAID Array Data Recovery

Seagate Recovery Western Digital Recovery
     
  Physical recovery (SCSI Hard Disk) from £ 550.00
  RAID recovery from (IDE & SATA Hard Disks) £ 650.00
  £120.00 if we are unable to retrieve any data
  90% Success rate
  Quick turnaround

RAID 5 Arrays were developed as a form of protection from data loss and provide large amounts of highly accessible space. RAID's or "Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks" were thought to solve data loss issues by writing the data across several disks. Then, if one disk was to fail or a logical volume was lost, it could be rebuilt and restored with minimal loss or downtime. One thing is certain, eventually it will fail, logical volumes will become corrupt or lost and you will need raid data recovery.

BE CAREFUL! Often any chance for raid data recovery is taken away when attempting to restore a lost volume or re-add a drive to the array. This among other things can lead to an over write of parity or volume data making it much more difficult and/or impossible to recover from.

Frequently, hardware such as a damaged or bad controller card can cause a variety of RAID data recovery issues. Here is just a small list of common problems.

  Broken arrays
  Controller Failure
  Corrupted RAID Configurations
  Failed Drive(s)
  Lost container
  Lost Key information
  Lost volume
  Malicious Damage
  Missing Container
  Missing Partitions
  Missing Volume Tables
  Multiple Disk Failure
  OS and File System Corruption
  Physically or Logically Damaged Drives within the Array
  Reformat or Reinstallations
  Server Configuration Lost
  Virus Attack
  Volume Corruption

Common RAID types:

  RAID-0.
    This technique offers striping but no redundancy of data. It offers the best performance but no fault-tolerance and if a drive fails in RAID 0 only repair and reassembly of the volume will result in a recovery
     
  RAID-1
     
    This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least two drives that duplicate the storage of data. This may become a problem should you experience a corruption of data. You will then have 2 copies of bad data. This is recoverable.
     
  RAID-2
    This type uses striping across disks with some disks storing error checking and correcting (ECC) information.
     
  RAID-3
    This type uses striping and dedicates one drive to storing parity information. Should 2 drives in the system fail at once, only hard drive repair and volume restoration will result in a RAID recovery.
     
  RAID-4
    This type uses large stripes, which means you can read records from any single drive.
     
  RAID-5
    This is the most common type includes a rotating parity array. This type requires at least three and usually five disks for the array but can hold more. Should 2 drives in the system fail at once only hard drive repair or volume restoration will result in a recovery.

From complex recoveries such as lost RAID volumes, Damaged RAID Drives, Lost partitions, Corrupted SQL Databases and Damaged Exchange Servers all the way to single file repairs for common software such as QuickBooks, Peachtree, Microsoft Office Suite and many others. We are able to provide complete recovery solutions so you can get back up and running both quickly and affordably. We can also consult with you concerning back-up solutions so you will never be faced with another data recovery issue.

When choosing a data recovery service there are some key factors that you should consider when choosing which to use. You will see many companies offering data recovery services, many will offer same day turn around times and rate that seem too good to be true, and in most cases that's just what they are. The fact is you want to look for a company that offers you some of the following terms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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