Here you an find blog posts covering various RAID types and data loss situations.
The client in this data recovery came to us after their local fire department suffered a server crash. A lightning strike to the station had led to a power surge. Afterward, the little two-drive server the department relied on to…
The client in this data recovery case came to us for our Seagate NAS recovery services. This client had been using their Seagate Central NAS device for remote storage. Over time, the device had started to behave oddly, intermittently refusing to…
Our client here brought their QNAP Turbo NAS device to Gillware when their data became inaccessible. The TVS-471, with three hard drives in a RAID-5 array, held their business’ entire financial records. When it stopped responding, those records went up…
How RAID Reconstruction Works in RAID-5 RAID-5 is one of the most popular forms of RAID, and it’s not hard to see why. When you combine three or more hard drives into a RAID 5 array, you get three benefits.…
HP ProLiant Data Recovery Case Study: Yellow Means Caution Server Model: HP Proilant DL360 G5 Server RAID Level: RAID-5 Drive Model: Seagate Savvio 10K.5 9TE066-150 Total Capacity: 600 GB Operating System: Windows Server 2008 Situation: Yellow status lights for all…
This client brought their Western Digital My Cloud to the NAS recovery experts at Gillware when the device cut them off from their data. They’d been using the personal NAS device to store their family photos and videos… until, that…
The client in this data recovery case came to us when their Drobo unit suddenly showed up as blank on their Windows PC. Drobo units, designed by Data Robotics, combine multiple hard disk drives into single massive storage volumes, but…
In this data recovery case, our client had a Western Digital network-attached storage device. A network-attached storage device, or NAS, is accessible not via a USB cable, but rather by an ethernet cable. The device plugs directly into the user’s…
The client in this RAID-10 recovery case study came to us after their Dell RAID-10 server had crashed. After restarting the Dell PowerEdge server, the RAID controller reported that the virtual disk had failed. Two drives in the array were…
