Category RAID
RAID Data Recovery
Here you can find blog posts covering various RAID types and data loss situations.SQL Database Recovery Case Study: IBM System x3650 M3
When this client’s IBM System x3650 M3 server crashed, they feared the worst. IBM had ended both production of and support for this particular model years ago, and if something were wrong with the server itself, it would mean either trying…
RAID Array Recovery Case Study: When a Blessing Becomes a Curse
Our client in this RAID array recovery case came from a medical clinic. One of the computers in their lab responsible for storing DICOM standard images of patient X-rays used a RAID-1 mirrored array to store data. A RAID-1 array…
Server Crash Recovery Case Study: Lightning Strikes Twice
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…
Seagate NAS Recovery Case Study: Firmware Foibles
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…
QNAP NAS Recovery Case Study: It’s (QNAP) Turbo Time
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…
RAID Recovery Case Study: RAID 5 Failure and Reconstruction
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
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…
NAS Device Drive Prompts for Reformat
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…
RAID Partition Recovery Case: Drobo – Invalid Partition Table
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…