RAID away

Posted by Mark on Oct 16, 2008

Interesting day for RAID recovery work, though emotions were divided with one happy customer and one greatly saddened one.

Like the old London bus joke about “none for ages then three come at once” RAID data recovery is not an everyday requirement but two turned up this morning within ½ and hour of one another. Both were 12 disk DELL units, one reported that 3 drives had failed, the other that two were offline.

Could we recover the data?
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RAID data recovery leaps forward

Posted by Mark on Sep 23, 2008

Failure of a RAID system can seem like the end of the world for the stressed out people trying to find out what is wrong whilst fending off the attentions of the accounts department, members of the board of directors and probably people from every department who have data stored on the RAID and want to access is “now – thank you very much”.

Traditionally RAID data recovery has been a protracted process because of the greater complexity and the lack of flexibility in those recovery tools that are publicly available. A faster service could sometimes be achieved only by increasing risk by not securing data before starting work.

Now this has changed with Altirium’s latest RAID recovery software the process can be completed within a few hours.
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