cjloki Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 is there any way to recover data i.e. photos, and documents, f rom a crashed raid set ? any apps or proceedures out there that can restore lost raid artifacts ? i'd even be curious to know if there is a data retreival service that can do the job for a reasonable fee... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 Step one. Punch whatever idiot put important data on an RAID 0 array without a backup. Step two quietly weep in a corner. For single drives there are a ton of options and for any other RAID level (that's actually RAID unlike 0) you have data recovery options built in. There are data recovery services that work with RAID arrays, however when recovering off a single 3.5" drive NOT using RAID is generally $1000+ for these services cheap is NOT something you're likely to think of when they start quoting prices. One company I HAVE had experience and it's ALWAYS been a good one for this is Seagate. They will be more than happy to discuss over the phone or by email your options with them, though getting a price out of them for RAID drives was always a little harder. With that said it's been a couple years since the last time I used them so maybe they have a better idea of costs. I never had to ask them about a RAID 0 array though so they may just flat out say no. Here's their in lab service page. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ir_cow Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 Yep +1. Basically unless your willing to spend a lot for data recovery which may not even get what you want back, than your SOL. Sorry Edit. If the raid failed because of data coruption than there is software to recovery just like a single drive. If the drive has crashed, than you cannot do anything with software. So which is it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 +2, sadly. RAID-0 is awesome, but should only really be used as a boot drive with any major applications you want to load faster, it should not house personal documents of any sort. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 If the drive is crashed you're SOL. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 That sucks! but yeah! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 What everyone else said. RAID 0 should only be used for OS and applications, and back-up with an image if you make a lot of changes, otherwise, monthly is usually fine. I have two of my main systems with 2 SSD's in RAID 0, never had an issue. If I did, it would be easy enough to restore, while my data is always backed up to both my main computer with 2 HDD's in RAID 1, and my server with 8 HDD's in RAID 10. Every once in a while, I will also back everything up onto an offline HDD. You can try to restore lost data from a failed RAID 0 array, but why spend all that time and money when you can prep yourself for the eventual failure with backups? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjloki Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 well i guess you live and learn, of course the mistake is all mine, and i own it, ...the disk set in question was in one of my linksys nas200 network storage backups, and i don't remember what drove me to select raid when i initially set it up, but i did, and now i appears that one of the drives has disconnected from the pair set but still works when plugged into the blackX ...so from what i've read online so far all is not lost due to it not being a total hardware failure, but it seems like it is a very tedious process, with some specialized software to get anything out of them, and then there are no guarantees...so i just thought maybe someone has had to try something similar and had insight and experience with such problems...there is a software called ReclaiMe that looks promising, and might be an answer, but i don't know if i have the time or patience to muck through it all....we shall see, ... thank you all for the responses and kind words of encouragement... i will not be hitting myself any time soon ; ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted October 4, 2014 Posted October 4, 2014 i will not be hitting myself any time soon ; ) Good, other people would likely do a better job and I'm sure you can find someone who will do it for free Now, before you go find an appropriate corner you may want to give FileScavenger a try. The RAID enabled version is only $89 and while I don't have the newest version I've used version 3 for single drives with a fair bit of success. (the demo version should be able to show you what data it can find before you buy). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 It might be worth putting it back into the NAS and forcing it into an online state... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjloki Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 i thot that sounded like a good idea so i gave it a try...the nas firmware sees them as unformatted single drives, because they are stripped i suppose, and so in order for them to be recognized i'd have to reformat which would be counterproductive..,.right now i'm wondering if i was to connect them to my main gamer rig, (which dual boots as win 8.1 in raid and win 7 in achi in the bios) and tried to add them to my raid set choices as another array, it would be able to access them from win 8.1 as a separate disk...maybe ?...well we shall see tomorrow unless i get called out on the road... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted October 5, 2014 Posted October 5, 2014 Both of them show up as unformatted? That's odd. The NAS200 uses ext3 or XFS under the hood so it'll be difficult to figure this out from a Windows machine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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