| In case you are wondering, RAID stands for | | | | is not critical to the company, but if these |
| "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks", as it is an | | | | unprofessional methods fail, someone could loose his |
| assembly of more than one hard drive in a single unit. | | | | or her job! Therefore, in case of a RAID failure, the |
| The advantages of this are numerous, but the most | | | | best thing one can do is take it to a data recovery |
| important one is the fact that even if one of the | | | | company and let them do their jobs properly. |
| hard drives has failed, the computer is still able to | | | | Even if the process of RAID data recovery can cost |
| serve its purpose and perform all the tasks the user | | | | a lot of money, it is much better to have a specialists |
| desires. The issue of data loss in this case is not so | | | | take it through the set procedure that the data |
| severe, as the multiple hard drives offer higher | | | | recovery companies follow. |
| protection against accidental damaging the data. | | | | They start by ensuring that all the hard drives are |
| So, why would you need RAID data recovery? Well, | | | | functional, as this is a major factor in the success of |
| RAID is said to indeed protect your data when one | | | | the whole data recovery process. Only then they |
| of the hard drives fails, by increasing system uptime | | | | start making complete sector-by-sector clones of |
| and network availability. Not to speak of the fact | | | | every drive, a process that takes place at a very |
| that more than one hard disk working together will | | | | low level and is not affected by the bad sectors. |
| significantly increase the performance of your | | | | Your initial hard drive is set to a write protect mode |
| system! | | | | during this process, in order to make sure that your |
| Generally speaking, RAID data recovery is most | | | | original data is not in danger of being modified in any |
| definitely the most complicated thing that a data | | | | way. |
| recovery specialist or company can perform on a | | | | After cloning, your hard drives are no longer needed, |
| system. It is their mission to repair the damages that | | | | as the recovery process is being done on these |
| the user has done before taking the hard drives to | | | | cloned copies. The clones of your hard drives are |
| the technician for recovery. Most of the clients of | | | | then put into a system and all the data scattered |
| these data recovery firms attempt to recover the | | | | among the drives in the array will be put into an |
| data or even repair the array of hard disks by using | | | | unique destination drive. |
| the system utilities they can get their hands on. This | | | | This is the point when a normal recovery process |
| may be all right for the situation when the lost data | | | | can start, as there is only one drive left! |