RAID Data Recovery

RAID Data Recovery (4.31MB)

"If you are a business, we can save you thousands of pounds in lost revenue. With our RAID Data Recovery fast turnaround times, you will be up and running in no time."

RAID Recovery Protocols and Procedures.

Whatever the manufacturer, model and operating system, Disklabs Data Recovery and Computer Forensic Services provides complete data recovery services on a full range of hard drives, memory cards, tapes, mobile phones and RAID systems using all operating systems.

As one of the world’s leading companies in the field of advanced data recovery, Disklabs Data Recovery and Computer Forensic Services’ engineers and technicians use state-of-the-art tools and techniques to recover your critical data in situations that most other companies cannot. Our data recovery process is designed to make your life easier during this stressful time.

How much is your data really worth? – Do you need to Recover Data from the EBD file from MS Exchange, or a personal email PST file. It could be your thesis, the very database your company depends on, or alternatively some sentimental photos, which are totally irreplaceable.

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RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives)

Almost all SME, (Small to Medium Enterprises), have turned to RAID-configured storage on their servers in recent years for their mission-critical applications and data. In spite of being considered highly fault-tolerant, RAID does fail. RAID can fail due to component failure (including hard drives and controller cards), operating and application corruption, but most commonly, simple user error, often leaving the data unusable and corrupted.

RAID's are amongst the most complex media devices to recover data from. The data configurations are quite complex such as striped, volume, spanned etc. Sadly, different manufacturers will often use bespoke configuration applications that can add further complexity.

While state-of-the-art recovery tools and techniques are essential, ultimately it is the experience of both the recovery engineers and the software coders that makes the difference between a successful recovery and a failure. Successful RAID recovery often depends on an extremely fine-tuned sense of pattern recognition that is developed over years and years of recovering data from complex RAID configurations.

Disklabs Data Recovery and Computer Forensic Services is part of the 1^st Computer Traders Ltd group, which encompasses a company that repairs and sells hard disk drives, a company that specialises in surplus and end of line computer equipment, and of course a Data Recovery and Computer Forensics Services company.

How our RAID Data Recovery Process Works

1. The drives in the RAID are numbered
2. Complete Forensically Sound Images, (exact bit by bit copies  – including the blank or ‘white’ areas) of each of the drives are taken, (including the redundant drive/s)
3. Our engineers and programmers reconfigure the data into a ‘virtual RAID’ on our multi terabyte server, (HP Dual Xeon, 4Gb RAM, 8Tb SATA Storage, rack mounted, backed by UPS, backed up with a further 4Tb of storage)
4. The engineers send Client an email with a ‘file listing’ – a list of every file we believe we are able to save.
5. The Client checks over his ‘file listing’ to ensure that the required data is there.
6. The client instructs the Customer Service team to go ahead with the RAID Data Recovery.
7. Our engineers copy the data to a new drive, or drives, (either internal or external – subject to the client’s requirement).
8. Data is kept on our server for a period of 14 days for extra security, (couriers can lose packages, data is accidentally deleted again etc).

RAID-Data Recovery Options

• RAID 0 Data Recovery : Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance
• RAID 1 Data Recovery : Mirroring and Duplexing
• RAID 2 Data Recovery: Hamming Code ECC
• RAID 3 Data Recovery: Parallel transfer with parity
• RAID 4 Data Recovery: Independent Data disks with shared Parity disk
• RAID 5 Data Recovery: Independent Data disks with distributed parity blocks
• RAID 6 Data Recovery: Independent Data disks with two independent distributed parity schemes
• RAID 7 Data Recovery : Optimized Asynchrony for High I/O Rates as well as High Data Transfer Rates
• RAID 10 Data Recovery : Very High Reliability combined with High Performance
• RAID 53 Data Recovery : High I/O Rates and Data Transfer Performance
• RAID 0+1 Data Recovery: High Data Transfer Performance

Detailed RAID definitions, with diagrams.

Our technicians are all Clean Room trained, offer full Data Protection confidentiality, and have helped us achieve our ISO 9001:2000 Quality Assurance.

We are also proud members of the British Damage Management Associations' Special Interest Group (BDMA) (working alongside insurers, loss adjusters, and restoration companies), and the Professional Computer Association (PCA).

Disklabs technical expertise includes hard disk recovery, server recovery, and tape recovery ranging from a single notebook hard drive to RAID servers or even tape libraries. Our capabilities cover all operating systems and architectures.

We can resolve combinations of logical or physical problems such as hard disk crash, controller failures, SQL and Exchange corruption, Tape overwrite or EOD errors, accidental file deletion, operating re-installations, drive read errors, hardware upgrade failures, restore failures and many more.

Recovery of crashed hard disks involves replacing failed or damaged components in our own class-100 clean environment and using our own hardware and software tools to create media images. Components such as electronics, read/write heads, head assemblies, magnets & drive motors can all be replaced and salvaged.

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