Expedited Server and Raid Data Recovery Services
SalvageData's ISO 9001 certified, SOC 3 Secure labs and experienced raid recovery engineers are the industry leaders for fast secure server data recovery. Our professinoals are the ones to call for fast, emergency RAID recovery when certified expertise and successful results are a must. RAID failures can be due to a variety of causes, including power fluctuations, software, and hardware problems (such as disk controller malfunctions), to name a few. No matter the cause of failure, SalvageData's recovery experts can get your critical data back to you faster than anyone else.
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Dedicated RAID Recovery Experts
Businesses require RAID, NAS or SANs storage server systems for storing their critical data. The failures of such systems results in loss of data causing huge damages, including disruptions to productivity, costly outages and downtime, not to mention the financial devastation from such mishaps. At SalvageData we understand this, so we have created a dedicated RAID data recovery team that has helped countless businesses, both small and large, recover their data and get back to business as fast as possible.
Our dedicated team of RAID data recovery professionals can quickly assess the situation in order to advise the best course of action for your specific RAID data loss. Our team’s guidance will help you make the right decision for your business. Our experience means we can recover data from all types of file servers, application servers, web servers, direct-network attached RAID storage devices, and SAN system failures, to name a few. Our team’s expertise means we can handle even the most challenging data loss scenarios. Bottom line is our in-lab RAID recovery services enable us to salvage your data quickly, easily, and expertly, to get you back on your feet.
Commonly Used Server RAID Configurations
SalvageData supports and performs RAID data recovery for all RAID server models and types, including the most widely used RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 and other RAID type configurations.
RAID 0 Data Recovery - (Striping)
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A RAID 0 configuration uses a data striping technique where multiple hard drives are combined into one large volume. Because it splits the data and accesses both drives in parallel, RAID 0 reads and writes faster than a non-RAID configuration. RAID 0 does not offer data redundancy and requires a minimum of two hard drives to be fully restored in order to complete a successful RAID recovery.
RAID 0 offers low cost and maximum performance, but offers no fault tolerance; a single disk failure results in TOTAL data loss. Businesses use RAID 0 mainly for tasks requiring fast access to a large capacity of temporary disk storage (such as video/audio post-production, multimedia imaging, CAD, data logging, etc.) where in case of a disk failure, the data can be easily reloaded without impacting the business. To learn more about RAID 0 recovery check out our RAID configurations guide.
Note: In order to have the best possible chance at performing a successful RAID 0 data recovery, we often require all drives that were part of the original array at the time of failure.
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| RAID 1 Data Recovery - (Striped Mirroring) |
| A RAID 1 configuration mirrors, or copies, the content of one drive onto another twin drive. In the instance that one of the drives fails, mirroring guarantees optimal data integrity and instant access to your data. Another advantage of a RAID 1 configuration is that it allows you to use just half of your NAS device's available capacity. A RAID 1 configuration has a minimum of two hard drives; if you use more than that, there must be an even number. The advantage of this type of RAID configuration is that in normal circumstances (the mirrors function correctly when the failure occurred), RAID 1 data recovery takes less time, resources and tools.
Provides cost-effective, high fault tolerance for configurations with two disk drives. RAID 1 refers to maintaining duplicate sets of all data on separate disk drives. It also provides the highest data availability since two complete copies of all information are maintained. There must be two disks in the configuration and there is a cost disadvantage as the usable capacity is half the number of available disks. RAID 1 offers data protection insurance for any environments where absolute data redundancy, availability and performance are key, and cost per usable gigabyte of capacity is a secondary consideration.To learn more about RAID 0 recovery be sure to also check out our RAID size estimation tool and RAID configurations guide.
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| RAID 5 Data Recovery (Strping with Parity) |
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A RAID 5 configuration offers the best combination of data backup, media capacity and overall performance. A RAID 5 configuration strips all available drives into a single, large volume space, equal to one of the hard drives, and is used to store parity data. If correctly configured, when one hard drive fails, it will use the parity data to rebuild your data. A RAID 5 configuration needs a minimum of 3 hard drives. Another backup option a RAID 5 configuration offers is hot spare, which reserves an additional hard drive to take over immediately after the failure of another drive. Total RAID capacity is calculated by subtracting the space of two hard drives from the sum of all the hard drives. If you want to use hot spare with RAID 5, you must have a minimum of 4 hard drives. To learn more about RAID 5 recovery check out both our RAID size estimation tool and RAID configurations guide and .
Note: In order to have the best possible chance at performing a successful RAID 5 data recovery, we often require all drives that were part of the original array at the time of failure.
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| RAID 6 Data Recovery - (Striped with dual mirroring) |
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This configuration uses the same basic idea as RAID 5, but creates two separate parity sets. This means it has to have four disks to function, and loses two disks worth of storage space to parity. However, it also means that any two disks can fail, and the array can still be rebuilt. Additionally, RAID 6 (and, to a certain extent, RAID 5) can scale up easily and give very large storage arrays while only losing a small portion of their overall drive space. For example, a 10 disk RAID 6 array would still have 8 disks worth of space and be able to handle two complete disk failures. Reading data from a RAID 6 array is not quite as fast as it would be from a RAID 5 (as there are two parity streams to check), but is still faster than a single disk.
Note: With less expensive, but less reliable SATA disk drives in a configuration that employs RAID 6, it is possible to achieve a higher level of availability than a Fibre Channel Array using RAID 5. This is because the second parity drive in the RAID 6 RAID set can withstand a second failure during a rebuild. In a RAID 5 set, the degraded state and/or the rebuilding time onto a hot spare is considered the window at which the RAID array is most vulnerable to data loss. During this time, if a second disk failure occurs, data is unrecoverable. With RAID 6 there are windows of vulnerability that may require recovery if the second parity drive also fails. See our information regarding RAID 6 Data Recovery.
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| RAID 10 Data Recovery - (Striping two RAID 1 Mirrors) |
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Similar to the results of a RAID 0+1 (mentioned above), this setup provides both an increase in performance and reliability over a single disk drive. This is accomplished by creating two RAID 1 Mirror arrays and then striping data across them. Again, a single disk can fail and the array should continue to function. Four or more disks are required, and only half the total disk space is usable (the rest being taken up by redundant data) making usable capacity of RAID 10 at 50% of available disk drives. See our information regarding RAID 10 Recovery and check out our RAID configurations guide.
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Supported Data Loss Situations
Our engineers are trained to recover data from a variety of data loss situations, including:
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Disasters |
| Deletions |
Head Crash |
Fire |
| Virus Infection |
Media Damage |
Flood |
| Corruption |
Electrical Damage |
Hurricane |
| Lost Password |
Controller Error |
Tornado |
| Damaged / Overwritten MFT |
Actuator Failure |
Earthquake |
| Lost Partition structure |
Damaged Motor |
Power Shortage or Spike |
| Formatted Partitions |
Bad Sectors |
Sabotage or Terrorist Act |
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Heat Related Failure |
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Dropped cracked casing |
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All Disk Based RAID Array Configurations:
The advantage of SalvageData is that we have the experience and expertise to address even the most obscure types of RAID configurations.
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Server RAID Configurations:
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Any and all Disk Based RAID Failures:
No matter the size, configuration, operating system or platform of your enterprise storage system, be it a multi-disk RAID array system, SAN, NAS or other multi-disk server system, SalvageData‘s highly qualified RAID data recovery engineers can recover your data, even if all other means of recovery have been unsuccessful.
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- RAID controller failure
- Rebuild failure
- Damaged striping
- Multiple drive failure (offline error)
- RAID array or volume mount failure
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- Configuration damage or corruption
- Addition of incompatible drives
- Hardware conflicts
- Software corruption
- Viruses or malicious intent
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All Modern & Legacy Hard Disk Drives:
Our RAID data recovery engineers support and work on all disk based I/O interfaces, IDE, SCSI, ATA, SAS and SATA standalone or RAID array configured disk sets.
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RAID Hard Drive Types:
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- IDE/ATA/PATA/EIDE
- ULTRA/ATA 100
- SAS
- SCSI
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- ESDI
- Fibre Channel
- USB
- Firewire
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All Server OEM Makes and Models:
We are certified and qualified to service all the following hardware and server RAID manufacturers listed below. Nonetheless, please call us at anytime should you have questions about any specific server RAID configuration or RAID data recovery needs.
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All ProLiant Series |
Full RAID Support |
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All PowerEdge Series |
Full RAID Support |
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- ProLiant (CPQ)
- Integrity
- AlphaServer
- e3000
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Full RAID Support |
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IBM XSeries, Unix AIX, PSeries |
Full RAID Support |
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Entire line of product |
Full RAID Support |
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All Intel, AMD + More |
Full RAID Support |
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Entire RAID Product line |
Full RAID Support |
Who We Are - And Why We're The Best
At SalvageData, we are the ISO Certified and SOC 3/SAS 70 Security raid data recovery experts that you want to entrust with your valuable information assets. SalvageData is committed to providing personalized care and top-notch quality services and solutions, which is reflected in every stage of your raid recovery experience. We also let our Verifiable Credentials speak for us as we salvage what the competition may have called ‘unrecoverable’.
