Data Recovery from RAID Equipment
Nearly all users will face data loss at some time, many are prepared and have backups, but often the backups are out of date - for some businesses even a few hours worth of data can be a catastrophe.
When you analyse a system breakdown, there is an immediate cost effect. People have stopped workingIs this data critical? If the information can be re-entered quickly data before overwriting the drives. So before rebuilding a system, think do I need any of the data on the the drives?. Once the drives are overwritten, there will be very little possibilty of recovery. When you rebuild the server, get some new drives and rebuild using them.
A good data recovery company can recover the data from the old drives, they may need repairs but RAID 5 arrays have built-in redundancy. So if you have had two drives fail in a RAID 5 based server, the data recovery company will only need to repair one of the drives to recover the data so the chances are twice that of a a single drive system. If they can repair both then the recovery will be quicker.
Several data recovery companies advertise an 80 percent success rate or better for a single drive systems, so in theory there is a better than 96 percent chance of recovery of a RAID 5 by repairing just one of the failed drives.
MjM Data Recovery have recovered lost data from RAID based systems for thousands of customers throughout the world. Typical examples of our work are below.
1. RAID 0: An online bookies had lost details of bets placed during the previous night - all data recovered.
2. RAID 5: A 14 drive FCal array for a large firm of solicitors containing details of hundreds of current legal cases - all data recovered.
3. RAID 5: An applicance manufacturer's server fails, resulting with a large number of people temporarily laid off - all data recovered.
4. RAID 1: Both drives fail for an Accountants firm with hundreds of client's Accounts and Tax information - all data recovered.
5. RAID 5: A Supermarket's stock management system fails, the backup is 4 hours out of date. The shop has to close it's doors temporarily - all data recovered.
As you can determine from above, the effects of a RAID system crash has the potential to be a disaster, imagine the fate of the companies above if their data was not recovered. So selecting the right data recovery company is vital. The companies above made the chose us and were relieved to get their data back. MjM Data Recovery Limited are the preferred supplier for thousands of small businesses to the largest of corporations. Our objective is to get you back up and running in as quick a time as possible.
MjM Data Recovery are a suitable company and are renowned for the expertise in RAID data recovery.