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Posted on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 11:49 PM

RAID Can Fail Too and Recovery


Redundant Array of Independent Disk or RAID is the combination of two or more drives linked together to from a single high capacity storage device. Popularly known for its reliability and superior performance, RAID distributes the data among several disks, which is considered as a single disk by the operating system. But, sometimes even a reliable storage medium like RAID also gets damaged. This may cause severe loss of data to your work area as RAID contains huge amount of data. To overcome such drastic situations, it is highly recommended to go for Hard Drive Recovery solutions.

RAID increases the system's fault tolerance capability that keeps the system working even if it encounters any hardware or software conflicts. But, there are some situations where this storage medium fails, leading to data loss. Following are the possible scenarios for RAID failure.

Power failure: If power failure occurs in between some important transactions, data loss can occur. Complete disk drive failure: Sometimes, due to physical damage, the disk drive of the computer may fail, which may create serious data loss scenarios. Physical damage may happen due to crashing of the read head in the hard disk platter. The failure level could be either physical level damage or complex logical damage of data. Bad sectors: This is considered as the main reason for disk drive failure. Bad sectors in the disk slowly damage the disk drive. For example- if a file is saved in the area of the disk, which is affected by bad sector, the file may become corrupt, hence inaccessible.

Apart from all these, RAID failure may also occur under the following situations:

Missing or damaged RAID partition. Multiple disk failure in off-line state, results in loss of RAID volume. Loss of RAID configuration settings. Loss of system registry. Controller malfunction.

As per the fact that RAID is known for its high storage capacity, proves that its failure or damage can actually create catastrophic situations for a business or an organization. Under these circumstances, the only way to overcome such hazardous situations is to call a hard drive recovery expert to recover your important data. These are well-educated and experienced experts who use high-intense techniques to powerfully extract the lost data from the physically damaged hard drive. These technicians provide comprehensive Hard Disk Recovery, even in cases where the hard drive is severely damaged.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of world-class data recovery services and tools. The company provides complete hard disk recovery under the sterilized environment of Class 100 Clean Rooms in almost all cases of physical data loss scenarios. Having more than 1,000,000 satisfied customers worldwide, the company offers comprehensive data recovery from almost all storage mediums like RAID, NAS, SAN, and many more.
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