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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    Actually, I do have images of all the old drives created with R-Studio. (each on its own 4TB HDD). There is also free space on those drives I could use for recovering the old data via R-Studio or another software. Yes, I learned my lesson on RAID vs backup. I do have some older copies of many...
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    ^ What I figured as well.. I'm waiting for more advice before I do anything stupid One thing I noticed is that most of the older files are 100% OK, while most of the newer ones from the past 6 months or so seem screwed up. Not sure if that helps at all
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    Hi all, So, the delete/add method seems to have worked after I found the correct settings. I can see 90%+ of my files, and video files 3GB+ play without issue. There are still some folders that don't open ("corrupted") - including My Pictures, which is the one I need to recover the most. When...
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    The original Seagate 2TB disks were not rated for RAID. It's pretty obvious now that a random timeout caused drive 3 to drop and start rebuilding. HW wise the drive is fine and I can still read from it (made full disk image). The new drives I purchased are DeskStar 7K4000 which specifically...
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    I'm making some good progress towards recovering this volume. Over the weekend, I got 4x new 4TB drives and created a raw image of each disk. Analyzing the images in R-Studio using this procedure, I was able to determine following correct parameters for the RAID set: - Drive order 1-2-3-4...
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    Hey guys thanks for weighing in! Not sure I fully understand the responses though, sorry relative n00b at this. I thought they were RAID rated, but don't remember for sure. Will double check. One thing I'm thinking is, since I have 3 drives under RaidSet #00 that still show up as members, and...
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    Bump.. Anyone have any ideas?
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    Areca ARC-1210 - help! Incomplete RAID

    Looking to tap into your combined wisdom on this forum, please. Having some issues with my RAID5 volume 4x 2TB SATA on ARC-1210. Here's a rundown of the problem and steps taken to try and fix it so far: - First symptoms were the raid volume being inaccessible under Windows. I could browse a...
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