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LaCie failed drive alert
Failed Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB drives in LaCie NAS Continue reading
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Data recovery RAID 0
Data recovery RAID 0 RAID 0 is pure, block-level striping. This means the data is broken into “blocks” – also known as “stripe size” which can be defined when initially building the array. Stripe size is normally chosen depending on … Continue reading
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RAID Recovery RAID 30
RAID 30 utilises the redundancy and high performance of RAID 3, and the performance of RAID 0. It consists of two servers, each configured with RAID 3, and then striped with RAID 0. Each of the two servers can continue … Continue reading
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Windows Server recovery
More information on Windows Server Recovery. Retrodata offer a full Windows Server recovery and Server Rebuild service. We work with all versions of Microsoft Server, including the following: Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1 Windows NT Server 3.51 Windows NT Server … Continue reading
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Hard Drive Failure
Hard drives fail! Almost every hard disk that does not get replaced or disposed of before it’s allowed to live a full life will probably unexpectedly fail at some point, due to any number of reasons. Poor quality manufacturing, or … Continue reading
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Unrecoverable Xsan recovered
In early 2010 we successfully performed what we believe to be the first Xsan data recovery procedure that involved working on only one of the two striped RAID arrays, totally independent of the second member of the array and the … Continue reading
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Incorrect RAID drive substitution
When a disk in a modern multi-drive RAID array fails, if it has a hot-spare installed, it will “pick” that drive up, mark the bad drive as such, and rebuild the array using the hot spare. The old drive will … Continue reading
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Full System Rebuild
We understand the meaning of downtime and what it can do to a business. We’ve witnessed the frustration, desperation and feeling of utter futility an IT Administrator can experience, having no idea how long a computer or storage failure will … Continue reading
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Non standard RAID Recovery
Non standard RAID recovery includes the following RAID levels: BeyondRAID by Data Robotics (DROBO) Double Parity RAID (also known as Diagonal Parity, or RAID 6) RAID Z (used by the Sun ZFS file system) RAID Z2 Double Parity RAID-Z by … Continue reading
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Perfect RAID recovery track record
The month of August 2010 saw a major milestone for Retrodata. Since June 2009, we have not failed to recover a single RAID storage system – regardless of the method of failure. This included a 56-drive Apple Xsan Storage Area … Continue reading
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