RAID Recovery

RAID Recovery Process

    Each RAID is evaluated at one of our facilities and a recovery strategy is formed. 

    You are provided with an evaluation report from your dedicated contact. Pricing and turnaround time are quoted, with different options available to match your needs. 

    When a RAID recovery is approved, it is immediately moved into our RAID recovery area. If one or several of the drives in the array are suffering from a physical failure, such as a head crash or spindle problem, our data recovery engineers will correct each issue before the drives move into the next stage of our process. 

    Before beginning work on any RAID, acedatalab.com makes duplicate backup images of each drive before beginning the complex RAID reconstruction process. By working from images rather than the original drives, you can be assured that there is no chance of additional damage. 

    Once your case is recovered, your data is copied onto an external hard drive or other form of media and sent overnight back to you. Clones of each drive are kept in a highly secured and strictly controlled laboratory in case of any problems, then deleted using Department of Defense standards to ensure that your data stays 100% confidential. 

What We Will Do?
RAID Recovery Process includes fixing the hard drive issues if any. The following is an example case we had, which had multiple hard drive problem. 
 
1. The RAID array failed;
 
2. Multiple hard drives issues;
 
3. Three of six hard drives with amber light;
 
4. One of six hard drives without light.
 
In this case, the first step is to fix the hard
drives if they have any problems that usually include firmware, PBC board, bad sectors, reading/writing heads, or stuck motor. If they have any scratched platters, the specific hard drive may not be fixed. 
After fixing enough hard drivers, the next step is to clone the working hard drive and recover the array parameters such as: 
•number of member disks
•block size
•parity position
•data offset
•disks and data order
At this moment, it is time to rebuild the RAID and recover the data