RAID 0 Recovery

Does anyone know of some software that can help me out?

My RAID 0 decided to bork on me. The drives and array is fine but windows sees it as RAW for some reason.

I have found a software called Reclaime and its done a stellar job. Can see the raid and can see the files but wont let me recover any of it unless i fork up $75.

There must be a free solution out there? Or one that will let me recover the 260GB I need?

I can pay for recovery if I have to at the end of May but not now.

Edited by Seansmit17 (Mon 16-Mar-20 17:42:17)

Well, [censored] me.

After a day of trying to recover my data or at least some, I did. But 90% of it was corrupted so I gave up and just opened raidxpert2 and deleted the array and made a new one.......

It was here I saw the fabled option "Keep existing data on drives". I thought.. Nah, cant be.. can it?? *Click*

Windows explorer pops up, New drive D:... 938gb used of 1.81TB.. No??!! WHAT!?!

All my data, games, pics, movies, files ALL there and ALL intatct!

Ok.. [censored] at wasting a day on this only find it was that EASY but so [censored] happy as well!

Edited by Seansmit17 (Tue 17-Mar-20 01:02:48)

Does Raid 0 not have a duplicate copy on another drive?

That's raid 1. Raid 0 stripes the information across two or more disks. Good for performance, so ideal for OS installation, but totally unsuitable for data storage as loss of one disk means loss of everything. At the very least you need to make very regular backups, but I wouldn't use raid 0 for long-term storage.

Nope.

Raid 0 is the joining of two disks to form one larger volume. It provides improved performance usually, but its susceptible to more risk of data loss.

Raid 1 is drive mirroring.

Raid 0+1 or 1+0 is four drives, with the former being a mirror of a large volume, and the latter being a large volume of a mirrored array (it amounts to the same thing, but in different setup).

Easier way to understand it. Raid 0 is striping; raid 1 is mirroring. Raid 01 is a mirror of a stripe, while Raid 10 is a stripe of a mirror.

Raid 5 offers a nice balance between performance and resilience, although does need an extra drive due to the additional parity data.

With the size of disks nowadays, I'm more than happy with raid 1. Read performance is excellent and it's obviously very secure. For enterprise, we used to use raid 5, but I'd go for raid 10 nowadays and get the best of both worlds

Or just use an SSD and a good backup regime.

Im only using RAID 0 as I wanted my 2 1tb drives to show as one drive.

I have a backup on my google drive but the raid has all my games on it and that be a hassle to download again.

Just odd for it to fail the way it did but then be fine after recreating the raid :\

I would never use RAID0 ever. Absolutely ridiculous.

RAID has never been a substitute for good backups. It exists to help you limp along until you fix things (like a space-saver tyre) and/or provide performance improvements.

I used to be a data recovery engineer and we saw quite a few RAID systems. They typically suffered from one of two flaws: A single controller or drives with sequential serial numbers.