Recovering a Wrecked RAID

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @05:12AM from the undead-data dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "Tom's Hardware recently posted an article specifying how the professionals at Kroll Ontrack recover data from a RAID array that has suffered a hard drive failure, allowing for recovery of even RAID 5 arrays suffering two failures. The article is quick to warn this is costly, however, and points out the different types of hard drive failures that occur, only some of which are repairable. Ultimately the article concludes that consistent backups and other good practices are the best solution. Still, it provides an interesting look into the world of data after death."

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The easy way to fix a wrecked raid by StreetStealth · 2007-02-23 07:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Really, a wrecked raid can be fixed pretty easily if you have enough warlocks to get everyone a soulstone.

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Terminolgy update by sasdrtx · 2007-02-23 07:19 · Score: 2, Funny

When a disk fails in a RAID, it becomes an AID.

Or in the case of RAID-1, it becomes just an ID.

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