| Under normal conditions, when a hard drive fails, the | | | | because of the complexity of RAID array. |
| stored data and information can not be accessed any | | | | As compared to a single hard drive, the RAID array |
| more. However, Most hard drive failures, specifically | | | | has redundancy and provides fault tolerance, which |
| the mechanical failure, do not actually erase or | | | | means a drive failure does not cause data loss in |
| remove the data on platter surfaces. It means, this is | | | | most of the cases. When any fault takes place, and |
| possible to recover lost data in most of such cases | | | | it is handled competently and quickly, in majority of |
| using special procedures. The process of retrieving | | | | the cases the requirement of Data Recovery does |
| missing, inaccessible, and deleted data from computer | | | | not arise. If more than one drives in RAID array fails, |
| storage devices is known as Data Recovery. The | | | | you can not easily rebuild it and need recovery |
| recovery method may vary, as per the cause and | | | | solutions. |
| type of data loss. | | | | In case of logical data loss situations, such as file |
| You can minimize the possibilities of data loss | | | | system corruption, virus infection, operating system |
| situations using advance technologies, and RAID | | | | malfunction, and hard drive formatting, you can get |
| (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks) | | | | your valuable data recovered through Data Recovery |
| is one among them. RAID provides high level data | | | | Software. The applications use high-end scanning |
| storage reliability and performance with low-cost | | | | techniques to methodically scan the affected storage |
| components. RAID can replicate or divide your data | | | | media and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible |
| among several hard drives, according to the RAID | | | | data from it. |
| levels (like RAID0, RAID1, RAID3) etc. | | | | On the other hand, physical data loss cases like read |
| However, RAID levels that uses striping, can | | | | write head crash, spindle motor damage, disk |
| complicate the recovery process. The data is not | | | | controller failure, and power surges, need Data |
| placed in comparatively simple way on single hard disk | | | | Recovery Service to be handled. It is a personalized |
| rather, disseminated across several hard disks. | | | | and sophisticated help offered by recovery experts |
| Despite this situation, it is feasible to retrieve data in | | | | to repair or replace damage components of the drive |
| most of the hard drive failure cases; it costs more | | | | and extract data from it. |