Had a Raid failure...anyone else been down this scary road?

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  • bronco67
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Dec 2006
    • 29026
    #1

    Had a Raid failure...anyone else been down this scary road?

    I had a WD external drive that caused my computer not to boot(found out later). Perplexed, I did a Windows repair, which caused my 2 separate Windows dynamic disk Raids(2 drives each) to be marked as invalid in disk manager. One of the Raids was backed up, with a couple things missing, but the other one will be totally lost.

    I've had both raids evaluated by a pro, and its going to cost $1300 and $1700 to get the data back. The data is there, its just that the disks will no longer be recognized as raid drives by Windows.

    Do I have any options with some good software that can rebuild these drives. I tried one called Restorer Ultimate with no luck...maybe there's a better option out there. Please help save me $3000. Someone. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

    I swear I will never do a raid again. I just bought a 2 x2TB sata6 to do the same job.
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    • Loch
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2002
      • 7674
      #2
      Raids are hard to restore to be honest with you
      We just had a 13TB raid fail as well

      We were lucky that it failed slowly so could recover all the data before if died completely.
      Raids are great but only if you mirror them.

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        • Amputate Your Head
          There can be only one
          • Aug 2001
          • 39075
          #3
          I used to do mirror raid, but I had one disk fail about a year ago and the restore took 4 days. Much faster to just keep them non-raid and clone them as needed. The manual restore after failure then is only approx. one day per 1TB disk.

          And always have a clone of your primary OS drive. Always.
          SIG TOO BIG

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            • grumpy
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Jan 2002
              • 9870
              #4
              you cant go wrong with raid 5 and 5 disks installed, minimum amount of disks 3
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                • bronco67
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Dec 2006
                  • 29026
                  #5
                  Originally posted by grumpy
                  you cant go wrong with raid 5 and 5 disks installed, minimum amount of disks 3
                  Well, it wasn't really the Raid's fault. It was Windows losing its connection with the Raid in disk manager. If I could just re-initialize the disks, everything would be great.

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                    • GrouchyAdmin
                      Now choke yourself!
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 12085
                      #6
                      If your RAID is more software than hardware, it's worth precisely what you (haven't) paid for it.

                      I have shit failing and alerts every few days. Just swap out the drive, wait for it to rebuild (shit will be slow), and all's good with the world.

                      For consume grade, you can't go wrong with 3ware.

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