RAID and server recovery
Datamind recovers data from servers and disk arrays of every make and model, including the following causes of data loss:
- Damaged or lost RAID configurations
- Failed software or operating system upgrades
- Corrupted or damaged partition tables
- Systems that fail to boot, or missing and deleted files and folders
- Inaccessible drives
- Clicking drives
Our engineers have many years of experience in RAID recovery, a field in which experience is decisive. No two RAID cases are identical, and both the software and the hardware must be studied thoroughly before any recovery action is taken.
Our first step is always to create images of every functioning disk. Although this may appear to lengthen the process, it is essential: omitting it, as inexperienced technicians often do, can result in permanent data loss and further damage to the disks.
We then reconstruct the array on our own workstations, without requiring the original controller, card or NAS device. For this reason, only the hard disks need to be sent to us. Where transporting the disks is not possible, one of our engineers can carry out the recovery on site.
RAID arrays can usually tolerate the failure of a single disk. If more than one disk fails, the server may become unavailable, and attempting to recover the data yourself can cause permanent data loss.
Supported RAID levels
- RAID 1 and RAID 10
- RAID 0 and RAID 01
- RAID 3, 4
- RAID 5, RAID 5E and RAID 5EE
- RAID 6
- RAID 50, 51, 60
- Drobo
- JBOD
Supported controllers
- Adaptec RAID
- ASUS RAID
- LG
- Promise Technology
- Supermicro
- Dell (including the PowerEdge series)
- Intel
- IBM (xSeries, Power Series)
Charges apply only when your data has been successfully recovered.