Hard disk drives are different from nearly every other part of your computer system in one very vital respect: if you lose your hard drive, you lose something more than a hardware- you lose your data as well as software. You can replace the hard drive, but data and information on the drive generally can [...]
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DTI Data specializes in server hard drive recovery. In the past only large companies used RAID configurations for storage in their servers. Nowadays even home users have RAID setups in their personal computers, so small companies are also more likely to have RAID arrays in their servers. RAID Hard Drive Recovery When a server fails, especially when [...]
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A RAID system comprises of 2 or more hard disks that are combined to provide the storage capacity of both drives across 1 volume. The exception to this is RAID 1 which is a mirror. In other words the second drive is a duplicate of the first. If one of the drives in a RAID [...]
Today I turned on my computer and after a small time I have some information that I had saved on my external hard drive to have access. Raid recoveryI had bought and started using the external hard drive after I had a computer failure about 12 months or so ago and suffered because it causes [...]
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In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure that we do not have a stale hard drive in the array. Although I did not cover how one determines if in fact a stale hard drive exists, I will mention it now. [...]
We have been discussing the like affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I clarified how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact the ancient and new data, as well as how long the drive may [...]
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Cooling your hard drive will help prevent needing a hard drive recovery. For several different reasons, storage is a very vital part of a computer. These days, computers do far more than they ever have in the past. From businesses to family photos, storage is the ideal way to keep documents on your computer. The [...]
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RAID 1, also known as a mirrored set, would seem to be a perfect way to keep your critical data safe. The concept being that you have redundant drives. Whatever gets written to one drive will get written to the other drive. In other words, the drives are mirrored and look exactly the same. Stands [...]
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Over the course of a week I receive several calls regarding the recovery of a RAID 5 array. In the course of the initial interrogation of a client I question several questions regarding the state of the array, what has been done to recover the array and most importantly what happened to the array that [...]
The function set for the inaugural offering of RAID Diagnostic Toolkit is very basic. This post will explain how to choo...
Over the years one of the most consistent problems with RAID recovery is the rebuild. I would estimate that nearly 40 p...
In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure tha...
A RAID system comprises of 2 or more hard disks that are combined to provide the storage capacity of both drives across ...
I find that “RAID” is such a scary term to a lot of my end users or business clients who are not Network Adm...
