Category RAID
RAID Data Recovery
Here you can find blog posts covering various RAID types and data loss situations.
What is the Difference Between SAN and NAS Storage?
Updated: 1/22/2019 If you’re looking to protect your data, you may have already encountered both SAN and NAS storage options. SAN and NAS are very similar on the surface, but they fulfill slightly different roles. A SAN system is a…
Drobo Recovery Case Study: Invalid Node Structure
The client in this data recovery case study had a Drobo unit on the fritz. The Drobo unit, a storage device produced by Data Robotics, could not be mounted on the client’s Mac. Drobo’s dashboard reported no failed hard drives,…
My Book Live Duo NAS Reformat
This client came to us for our NAS array recovery expertise after losing the data from their Western Digital My Book Live Duo. The device had stopped responding and was no longer accessible. They pulled the My Book Live device’s…
NAS RAID Error code 0x80070035
The client in this data recovery case lost the data on their Seagate BlackArmor NAS device when the device became unresponsive. The NAS was not visible in Windows Explorer. Trying to force access the device prompted the Windows error code…
April 2017 Small Business NAS Review – Synology DS1815+
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”17069″ img_size=”700×600″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When it comes to running a business, the question of data storage can be tricky. Requirements usually exceed simply buying some cheap external storage, but most small businesses can’t justify the cost of buying an expensive enterprise-grade…
WD MyCloud Data Recovery Case Study: The Cloud In Your Living Room
Your Own Personal Cloud… Is Still A Cloud WD MyCloud external drives are, as their name suggests, meant to give users their own little slice of “cloud storage”. Cloud data storage, like Google Drive or Dropbox, allows you to upload…
ZFS Data Recovery: PowerVault MD1000 Failure
What Is ZFS? ZFS is an open-source file system designed by Sun Microsystems. The ZFS filesystem takes on a lot of responsibility—more so than most file systems. Among ZFS’s bag of tricks are advanced journaling and self-healing features designed to…
WD MyBook Duo RAID Configuration Issues
“Your Device Has RAID Configuration Issues” – How? The error message our client saw in this WD MyBook Duo data recovery case should rightly bewilder anyone who is even vaguely familiar with how RAID-1 works. MyBook Duo external hard drives…
Iomega StorCenter IX4 Data Recovery Case Study: RAID-10 Failure
The client in this RAID data recovery case had a four-drive RAID-10 array that had failed when two of its four hard drives died. The RAID-10 array had lived inside an Iomega StorCenter IX4 NAS device. With half of the drives…