> RAID / Server / NAS
We provide specialized RAID recovery
services to owners of systems that utilize RAID in their data
storage, be it in a computer, server, or network storage device.
RAID and other multi-drive system recoveries are much more complicated
than single drive recoveries and subsequently require a significant
amount of extra time. As a result, prices for RAID recoveries are
also significantly higher than recoveries on single drives, but
we still offer very competitive rates.
If you’ve found this page, we assume that you or your network
/ computer technician has already examined the situation, and knows
that they cannot with 100% certainty recover the RAID system, without
possibly compromising your data and making the situation worse.
RAID failure can be very difficult to recover from, even for the
pros like us. Making even one simple error in the recovery process
by someone who doesn’t perform RAID recovery for a living,
or even proceeding correctly but with compromised or failing equipment
can turn what at once would have been an easy recovery (for us)
into one that is impossible to recover by anyone in the world, for
any price. When the recovery of your RAID data is crucial, it does
not make sense to take chances. Be sure to send the drives or system
directly to IT Data Recovery immediately, especially if the hard
drives sound strange when operating, as in these cases, attempted
recoveries outside of a professional data recovery lab are almost
sure to cause more damage. If the problem is indeed due to a malfunctioning
hard drive within the system, or if it is otherwise beyond the scope
of your local technician’s 100% confidence, please call us
for information on how to proceed with the recovery.
In addition to all of the potential disasters that can occur within
single hard drives, RAID systems can
suffer from RAID controller failure, accidental reconfiguration
of RAID properties, and other RAID specific hardware and software
configuration problems.
We work with Windows NT, Windows 2000, Novell Netware, Linux, and
all other Windows operating systems.
Call us or click START
MY RECOVERY to let the professionals at IT Data Recovery return
your data to you safely. There is no charge for the evaluation,
and no recovery fee if we don't recover your data, (unless otherwise
agreed upon and approved by you after the free evaluation).
STAGES OF RECOVERY
1) Evaluation
After receiving your RAID / Server / or NAS system, our technicians
immediately make a RAW mirror of every single hard drive in the
system. Depending on the size of the RAID system, this can take
hours to in some cases over a day, but is a necessary part of the
process to ensure the greatest chance of recovery. Then the RAID
technicians evaluate the integrity of the system with our proprietary
RAID recovery software, lab equipment, and hex-level RAID expertise
to determine the cause and extent of the damage, and then call you
with an estimate. Please note that our estimates on RAID and multi-drive
systems cover a wider range than on our single drive recoveries,
since it is much harder to predict the time required and extent
of damage to the system before the recovery.
2) Recovery
With your approval of our written estimate, our technicians begin
the recovery process. Our goal is to create a full, de-striped raw
image of your system's damaged drives as soon as possible in the
recovery and then work with those images to keep the use of your
damaged drives to a minimum. Often when recovering your data, our
experienced engineers must open the hard drive(s) in a cleanroom
laboratory and repair damaged components with our proprietary equipment
before a successful raw image can be acquired. With a RAID system,
additional steps must be taken to ensure proper recovery.
3) Transfer
Once the raw images are acquired, we use our software to translate,
normalize and repair corrupted data back into a format usable to
you and then notify you that your data has been recovered. You then
confirm your choice of the media format in which you wish to receive
your restored RAID system. With RAID recoveries, the data is almost
always recovered to one or more hard drives, and the original RAID
system and configurations are kept whenever possible.
4) Shipping
Upon completion of recovery and transfer, the data is shipped back
to you immediately.
RAID Data Recovery Service: Expert RAID 5 Data Recovery
and RAID 0 Data Recovery services from IT Data Recovery in Austin,
Texas.
