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Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 14:43:

RAID 0 Data Recovery?

I'm hoping someone has some advice on what to do here:

I had a striped (RAID 0) Raid running windows Vista on my home computer. It decided to take a shit last night and stop working...

Long story short, one of the disks from my raid is fucked and I need to recover the most recent track I was working on.

Is there any way to get the data off the other disk??

Posted by devnull on May-05-2008 14:48:

simply put, ur data is fucked

Raid 0 == zero redundancy. Half your data is on the dead drive.

Raid 1 or raid 5 would of been fine.

Posted by Orko on May-05-2008 14:52:

quote:
Originally posted by devnull
simply put, ur data is fucked

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 15:01:

yeah thats what i figured... ballsackery.

Fucking Western Digital...........

Posted by Jer on May-05-2008 15:18:

quote:
Originally posted by devnull
simply put, ur data is fucked

Posted by m2j on May-05-2008 15:29:

Posted by exstasie on May-05-2008 15:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
Fucking Western Digital...........

I've had 3 WD External HDD's...all died within 6 months :S

Posted by I_Am_Vince on May-05-2008 15:46:

Seagate 7200.11 FTW!

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 16:12:

sigh... so i lose my new tune - which is shit, because it was my best one yet.

But, Lessons learned.. I am going to build a Raid 5 with Seagate 500gb drives.

Up yours Western Digital!

Posted by jsibilin on May-05-2008 16:30:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
sigh... so i lose my new tune - which is shit, because it was my best one yet.

But, Lessons learned.. I am going to build a Raid 5 with Seagate 500gb drives.

Up yours Western Digital!

if the drive decided to stop working.. maybe from a moving part either the needle or motor.. you can have the hard disks platters switched (in a clean room).. cost is about 1500$.. good business to get into

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 17:10:

quote:
Originally posted by jsibilin
if the drive decided to stop working.. maybe from a moving part either the needle or motor.. you can have the hard disks platters switched (in a clean room).. cost is about 1500$.. good business to get into

Yea - I looked into it and got an outrageous quote like that as well. As good as the track was, not sure that the steep pricetag would be worth it...

Thanks though!

Posted by jsibilin on May-05-2008 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
Yea - I looked into it and got an outrageous quote like that as well. As good as the track was, not sure that the steep pricetag would be worth it...

Thanks though!

I've also heard freezing the drive overnight and hooking it up to a external drive enclosure may work.. . np

Posted by rabbitjoker on May-05-2008 17:19:

That is why they call it ZERO.

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 17:32:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
That is why they call it ZERO.

Ive also heard people call it a Scary Raid. I get it now... :S

Posted by rabbitjoker on May-05-2008 17:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
Ive also heard people call it a Scary Raid. I get it now... :S

To be honest, it's better than nothing - but storage is so cheap now, why not go the whole way and get redundancy on the hardware (not just the data).

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-05-2008 17:49:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
To be honest, it's better than nothing - but storage is so cheap now, why not go the whole way and get redundancy on the hardware (not just the data).

For sure... I set this system up before I got into production so it wasnt as much of a concern then... I'm fairly certain that these WD drives outlived their 2 year warranty by a year or so.

Thats the plan though.. I'm going to setup a RAID 5 today so I have not only a performance boost but redundancy. This way if any hardware fails all I have to do is swap a new drive in.

stupid me...

Posted by Vogon on May-05-2008 18:12:

If it that bad, you could load up Vista on a new drive, and then put the bad drive in as 2nd data drive and see if you can restore something off of it.

Posted by Orko on May-05-2008 21:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Vogon
If it that bad, you could load up Vista on a new drive, and then put the bad drive in as 2nd data drive and see if you can restore something off of it.

This would not work.

Posted by r5a on May-05-2008 21:53:

You might be able to use File Monger. It has raid support, dunno how extensive it will work though for an array (based on the way data is striped across too). I know it works wonders on hard drives that have been formatted, can't access, everything.

Best Bet.

Posted by DigiNut on May-05-2008 23:34:

Please, for the love of god, especially if you're doing creative work, make backups. RAID is not a substitute, not even "real" RAID 1/5 that's actually redundant.

Posted by SgtFoo on May-06-2008 00:30:

I say we build a 10TB server tower and move it between our machines for weekly backups.... LOL

Posted by Dave Akermanis on May-06-2008 01:03:

quote:
Originally posted by SgtFoo
I say we build a 10TB server tower and move it between our machines for weekly backups.... LOL

Good news... I didnt lose the new tune! Turns out I have it on my most recent backup... All i lost was 30$ worth of shit from beatport I had not back'd up yet... Crisis averted

Posted by jalalinator on May-06-2008 02:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
Good news... I didnt lose the new tune! Turns out I have it on my most recent backup... All i lost was 30$ worth of shit from beatport I had not back'd up yet... Crisis averted

once i lost like 200 dollars worth of shit from beatport because my computer fucked up.. I emailed tech support and they credited me one more download of each song. try it out

Posted by pete242 on May-06-2008 03:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
Yea - I looked into it and got an outrageous quote like that as well. As good as the track was, not sure that the steep pricetag would be worth it...

Thanks though!

I know a place that will do it for hmmm 500-600...would that work for you? I have gone many times to them....and I see you figured it out! well good that is great to hear! but next time RAID 1 or 5, I am doing 5 at the moment.

Posted by E2EK1EL on May-06-2008 04:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Dave Akermanis
yeah thats what i figured... ballsackery.

Fucking Western Digital...........

I have 4 Western Digital IDE HDs on this comp ... still kickin'!

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