A RAID 0 stripe carries no redundancy, therefore a failure of one disk will knock the whole volume down, although the data should normally be recoverable. We image every drive and virtually re-stripe your data to get your files back.
Free diagnostic on every RAID job. One fixed price quotation in writing before any work: RAID recovery from £500 + VAT, priced per disk, and on logical recoveries you only pay if we recover your data.
A RAID 0 stripe distributes your data across every disk without redundancy, therefore failure of any one disk causes failure of the entire volume.
A RAID 0 stripe distributes your data across all of the disks without redundancy. Thus when one disk fails, it takes down the entire volume. All drives have to be imaged and re-striped in order to retrieve any information at all.
A stripe is designed for speed, not for safety. With no parity and no mirror, the array cannot recreate the missing pieces itself. It is precisely for this reason that careful imaging is so important.
Any dead controller, bridge or enclosure can cause the loss of an otherwise healthy stripe. The disks themselves are fine; however, the stripe geometry has to be worked out before the volume can be put back together.
Recreating the array, or a firmware problem, can lose the block size, disk order and offset that define a stripe. If these values are incorrect, the data will reassemble as noise, so we recover the values precisely from the images taken.
Since every file is split across all of the disks, bad sectors on any one member will punch holes into many files. Hardware imaging reads around such damage to save as much as possible.
Initialising or reformatting a striped volume to 'sort it out' will overwrite the metadata we rely on. If that has happened, stop immediately and power down your system.
As there is no spare copy within a stripe, each disk counts. We clone each drive to a stable image on our hardware imagers (repairing any physically failing drives on our head-swap bench first), then work out the disk order, the block (stripe) size used and where the offset lies, so we can virtually re-stripe the data and rebuild the file system to extract your files. We never write to your original drives.
With no parity or mirror, a RAID 0 array cannot heal itself: failure of one disk means the whole set must be recovered together. Also, a physically failing drive degrades a little more each time it spins up. If a drive has failed, turn off the system now and leave the repair and initialise tools alone, as they will overwrite the exact metadata we need to re-stripe your data.
We recover striped arrays from workstations, editing rigs, NAS boxes and small servers for homes and businesses across Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster and Chesterfield. Media is posted in to our Leeds location, tracked and insured. For other types of array, please see our RAID recovery and NAS recovery pages, along with typical data recovery costs.
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Our customers obtain a quote first, prior to posting their media to us. They either contact us by phone on 0800 689 0668 or fill out our free online diagnostic. After obtaining their quote they post their media to us by tracked and insured post.
Sending a drive that is fitted inside your desktop computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Please simply pull the hard drive or SSD from your device and send only the drive. We provide no drive removal service for internal drives. If you're using a server or RAID system, please post us all of the disks, each labelled with its bay. We cannot recover data from storage devices that are soldered onto a motherboard (e.g., Apple Silicon Macs and some thin laptops), so we require drives that can be removed and posted to us. If you are unsure what type of drives you may have, please call us first.
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