2011-11-25, 03:22
Hi all,
Does anyone have any experience with recovering data from a RAID 5 array? I'm not holding out much hope but here goes.
Last night I had a power cut at home, when my NAS came back up I got the most frightening message of my life "RAID not found, please format". After the blood came back to my body I restated the NAS, same result. I logged into the web interface, same result. About this point I started to panic.
My NAS is/was 4 x 1.5tb drives in RAID 5, etx2 and contained all my music, all my TV shows and a butt load of other misc stuff, thankfully iTunes Match has 90% of my music (best $25 I ever spent) but all my TV and the rest is gone. I can re-rip the tv but it'll take forever.
The drives pass a smart test and I've tried them in another identical NAS with no joy, (I also tried a working set of drives in the original NAS) so the drives are fine and the NAS is fine, it has to be something in the file system.
I've contacted a recovery service but they're asking close to $500 per drive and $350 just to look at it.
I'm pretty much resigned to the conclusion that everything is lost but there's still a little hope someone more knowledgeable than me might know some magic software that can help. Anyone?
Does anyone have any experience with recovering data from a RAID 5 array? I'm not holding out much hope but here goes.
Last night I had a power cut at home, when my NAS came back up I got the most frightening message of my life "RAID not found, please format". After the blood came back to my body I restated the NAS, same result. I logged into the web interface, same result. About this point I started to panic.
My NAS is/was 4 x 1.5tb drives in RAID 5, etx2 and contained all my music, all my TV shows and a butt load of other misc stuff, thankfully iTunes Match has 90% of my music (best $25 I ever spent) but all my TV and the rest is gone. I can re-rip the tv but it'll take forever.
The drives pass a smart test and I've tried them in another identical NAS with no joy, (I also tried a working set of drives in the original NAS) so the drives are fine and the NAS is fine, it has to be something in the file system.
I've contacted a recovery service but they're asking close to $500 per drive and $350 just to look at it.
I'm pretty much resigned to the conclusion that everything is lost but there's still a little hope someone more knowledgeable than me might know some magic software that can help. Anyone?