RAID 0 1 5 10 Data Recovery:

DTI Data can restore or recover your RAID 5, SAN, NAS, Snap Server, and many others. We run Terabyte capable servers to tackle the larger RAID'S that arrive here for data recovery.

Utilizing custom software and hardware solutions, DTIData is the ONLY choice for your vital server data. Don't be fooled by companies that offer on-site or worse, remote recovery options. Before any utilities are run against a RAID, all the disks must be cloned sector by sector. Anything other than that is an accident waiting to happen. Just one foul up and ALL your data can be lost. We have recovered RAID's that have been at many of our competitors labs. DO NOT SEND YOUR ARRAY TO ANY COMPANY WITHOUT VERIFYING THEIR CAPABILITIES.

In this day and age, there are more and more companies utilizing large storage units. There is NO data recovery company that has the experience of working with storage devices, that our company has.

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RAID 1 – Mirrored Set.

RAID one is a popular configuration for end users. It allows for total data redundancy with a minimum of performance degradation. The theory is that if one of the drives in the array degrades the other drive takes over totally and the user is notified with either an alarm from the card and possibly an email.

The problems we at DTI have seen when recovering a mirrored set are as follows.

1. Mirrors get corrupted. Bad data from one drive may propagate itself onto the mirror.

2. Mirror breaks and try to boot from single drive. Operating system still does not boot due to mirror meta data.

3. Upon a rebuild the wrong drive is pointed to on the rebuild.

Standard block size is 64K, 128K

RAID 0 – Striped Set

RAID 0 optimizes drive space and disk I/O but has no data redundancy. RAID 0 writes alternate blocks of data on each drive using a defined stripe size. Not only do you get the full use of all disk space but I/O is spread across all the drives in the array. This makes for faster reads and writes.

In order for a recovery from this type to be successful all the drives must have the capability of being addressed.

Standard stripe size is 128K, 256K.

RAID 5 – Alternating parity

RAID 5 optimizes drive space and allows for a great deal of data redundancy. There is a throughput bonus since there are multiple disks, but there are some calculations that are made in order to create a parity block.

RAID 5 uses a stripe, broken into blocks. One block in each stripe is not a data block, it is a parity block. Using XOR mathematics it is possible to lose one drive and still run. Once a second drive is lost the array fails.

There are several problems involved in this type of RAID recovery.

1. One drive is marked as drive by the card as bad and the array is degraded. The drive is forced online and the data gets corrupted.

2. One drive is marked by card as bad and the array is degraded. Drive is not replaced and the array continues to function. Second drive goes down and array goes down. It is not clear which drive went down first and it becomes difficult to determine which drive has stale data.

3. An automatic rebuild is started and the wrong drive is used as a rebuild point.

4. Drives are taken out of array and put back in enclosure out of order.

There are many other problems associated with RAID 5 data recovery, but the above are the most prevalent.

What a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is:

RAID 0 Striped Set:

All the disk devices are organized alternatively so that blocks are taken equally from all disks alternatively, in order to reach higher efficiency. Since the probability of finding a block of a file is identical for all disks, there are force to work simultaneously thus making the performance of the meta disk almost 10 times that of a single disk.

RAID 1 Mirror:

In this mode, the goal is to reach the highest security of the data. Blocks of data are duplicated in all physical disks (each block of the virtual disk has a duplicate in each of the physical disks). This configuration provides 10 times the reading performance of a single device, but it degrades writing operations. Read operations can be organized to read 10 blocks simultaneously, one from each device at a time. Similarly when writing 1 block it has to be duplicated 10 times, one for each physical device. There is no advantage in this configuration regarding storage capacity.

RAID 4:

In this mode the ultimate goal is to balance the advantages of the type RAID 0 and RAID 1. Data is organized mixing both methods. The physical 1 to N-1 are organized in striping mode (RAID0) and the Nth stores the parity of the individual bits corresponding to blocks 1 to N-1. If any of the disks fails, it is possible to recover by using the parity information on the Nth hard disk. Efficiency during read operations is N-1 and during write operations is 1/2 (because writing a data block now involves writing also to the parity disk). In order to restore a broken hard disk, one only has to re-read the information and re-write it (it reads from the parity disk but it writes to the newly install hard disk).

RAID 5:

This type is similar to RAID 4, except that now the information of the parity disk is spread over all the hard disks (no parity disk exists). It allows to reduce the work load of the parity disk, that in RAID 4 it had to be accessed for every write operation (now the disk where parity information for a track is stored differs for every track)

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  If your drive has been exposed to natural or man made disaster (fire, water, etc..).  Do not apply power!  Make sure it is packaged in some form of waterproof container until it can be examined by a data recovery professional in a clean room environment.  Powering up the unit may cause permanent damage to the data and eliminate the possibility of recovery.  Your media requires the services of a data recovery professional.  Call us now toll free: (866)-438-6932 or direct (727)-345-9665.

Dtidata.com does not participate in the "high/low" pricing quote model. (Typically between $500-$2,500.00)  We have found that most companies tend to charge on the high end of the quote range.  Some recovery companies also have a tendency to exaggerate turn around times .  We understand that this can be a stressful time for you and believe that you should be fully informed in your recovery process. 

Most drives recovered in 4-6 business days.

We feel we provide the most competitive recovery prices available.  We will meet and beat any price upon review.  Call us to discuss your data recovery situation

Raid 0 & Raid 5 Recovery Services

Because of the high importance of a RAID system, we consider a RAID data recovery project a top priority - which means much quicker file recovery and return of your data. Our standard turnaround time for RAID data recovery, regardless of whether it is a RAID 0 data recovery of a RAID 5 data recovery, is four to six business days. This is one of the fastest turnaround times in the industry.

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