QNAP Data Recovery

Over the past few months, we have been seeing more QNAP servers coming in for data recovery.  The issues we have recovered range from multiple drive failure to accidental deletion of the RAID arrays. A few common mistakes made that complicate the recovery efforts by...

Apple Xserve RAID 5 Recovery

The Recovery Force team just recently recovered data from an Apple Xserve 2008 setup with three 1TB hard drives configured in a RAID 5 storage array.  The original issue was a failed system board, but things got a little worse when the computer tech who first looked...

HP Smart Array P420i Data Recovery

The Recovery Force team recently recovered all the data from a critical storage volume contained on an HP Smart Array P420i 6 x 300GB SAS Drive RAID 5 array which was accidentally formatted. We were informed that without this data, several hundred employees were...

EMC RAID Data Recovery

EMC is known for having some of the most advanced storage solutions in the market.  Between their data deduplication solutions and their proprietary RAID storage hardware, they make every effort to prevent data loss.  However, even the best storage solutions can and...

RAID 1 Fatal Crash

When working with redundant disk drives in a RAID array, it is very important to frequently backup the data.  We just assessed a setup where the data stored on one drive is mirrored to the other in real time (RAID 1).  In this particular case, the second drive failed...

RAID-0 (Striping) Data Recovery

Ever wonder it means to have a RAID-0 hard drive configuration? No, it is not a hard drive that kills bugs dead. RAID-0 is also known as striping and splits the data equally across two or more hard drives.  The reason people choose RAID-0 is for the increased hard...