![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
As ARECA has yet to get back to me regarding data recovery, i am posting this here in the hopes that someone can help me recover my data from my 8-disk RAID array.
I am offering $50 via paypal to whomever can guide me through getting my data back.
My machine had suffered a power problem with the MOLEX connectors to the hard drives; one disk saw a failure, the RAID controller began to rebuild, and a second hard drive suddenly dropped out of the array (RAID 5 i believe), 'breaking' the array during a rebuild. i tried level one and level 2 recoveries to no avail. I have all the technical information relating to the array statistics; drive order, sector/cluster size, RAID type and configuration, etc. I tried creating a new array (NO_INIT) uninitialized to try to 'fake' a new array and access my data, to no avail. the hard drives have not been used, formatted, or altered in any way since the failure, so the data is still intact, just not accessible. I would prefer a way to copy the unorganized data and rehash it later instead of risking it with a format etc; i know there were a few people on here that had successfully recovered data in its raw format. English is not my first language, and i am not intimately familiar with ARECA hardware, RAID array failure recovery, etc so please forgive me for any errors in language, technical details, or syntax.
The affected array was initally in a different drive order (something like 5,2,1,6,7,3,4,8) and is now 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 if this helps, and i have no way to 'reorder' the drives via ARECA's HTTP GUI interface or the RAID boot configuration.
I have since soldered all the power connectors on the machine, so power problems will no longer be an issue. I should have bought and installed the battery backup module, but i did not have it then. The hardware is an ARECA ARC-1222 8x SATA II card, connected to 8 Samsung HM500JJ 500GB hard drives. They were in a RAID 5 configuration at 2.74TB total size. I do not have a 3+ TB hard drive to copy the data to; if needed, i can purchase one to dump the raw data on if it can be correctly reassembled later. I would prefer this in fact, to copy and rehash the data, rather than risk losing it. It is footage and photos spanning 4 continents and 20 years, so it is very important to me.
I can provide all the specs to anyone interested; i NEED the data recovered, but i do not need it ASAP; i have at least a month until i need the data recovered, so i can wait for a bit, but i do NOT want to risk losing it. ARECA has not gotten back to me in a week now, which worries me. I do not know enough to attempt data recovery otherwise, and would prefer to be guided through this by someone with experience; and i am willing to pay $50 USD as previously stated.
Anyone interested i can either post or email the system and configuration specs; my email address is [email protected]; please email me if you believe you can help.
Thank you,
Panagiotis Raris
I am offering $50 via paypal to whomever can guide me through getting my data back.
My machine had suffered a power problem with the MOLEX connectors to the hard drives; one disk saw a failure, the RAID controller began to rebuild, and a second hard drive suddenly dropped out of the array (RAID 5 i believe), 'breaking' the array during a rebuild. i tried level one and level 2 recoveries to no avail. I have all the technical information relating to the array statistics; drive order, sector/cluster size, RAID type and configuration, etc. I tried creating a new array (NO_INIT) uninitialized to try to 'fake' a new array and access my data, to no avail. the hard drives have not been used, formatted, or altered in any way since the failure, so the data is still intact, just not accessible. I would prefer a way to copy the unorganized data and rehash it later instead of risking it with a format etc; i know there were a few people on here that had successfully recovered data in its raw format. English is not my first language, and i am not intimately familiar with ARECA hardware, RAID array failure recovery, etc so please forgive me for any errors in language, technical details, or syntax.
The affected array was initally in a different drive order (something like 5,2,1,6,7,3,4,8) and is now 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 if this helps, and i have no way to 'reorder' the drives via ARECA's HTTP GUI interface or the RAID boot configuration.
I have since soldered all the power connectors on the machine, so power problems will no longer be an issue. I should have bought and installed the battery backup module, but i did not have it then. The hardware is an ARECA ARC-1222 8x SATA II card, connected to 8 Samsung HM500JJ 500GB hard drives. They were in a RAID 5 configuration at 2.74TB total size. I do not have a 3+ TB hard drive to copy the data to; if needed, i can purchase one to dump the raw data on if it can be correctly reassembled later. I would prefer this in fact, to copy and rehash the data, rather than risk losing it. It is footage and photos spanning 4 continents and 20 years, so it is very important to me.
I can provide all the specs to anyone interested; i NEED the data recovered, but i do not need it ASAP; i have at least a month until i need the data recovered, so i can wait for a bit, but i do NOT want to risk losing it. ARECA has not gotten back to me in a week now, which worries me. I do not know enough to attempt data recovery otherwise, and would prefer to be guided through this by someone with experience; and i am willing to pay $50 USD as previously stated.
Anyone interested i can either post or email the system and configuration specs; my email address is [email protected]; please email me if you believe you can help.
Thank you,
Panagiotis Raris
Last edited: