Tim Reid Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 My RAID-X NAS has reset itself after a hard disk failure and so all of my data has gone. I'm looking for the best company to recover my data any recommendations? I'm looking Kroll Ontrack because the company I work for uses them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quinten Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 First thing to do (I would!) is power the unit down and remove the harddrives with the data. Chances are, your data is still there, but the NAS OS is not allowing to view it, without "initialising" it. Under no circumstance do this! Also, the NAS is probably linux based, so I would get myself a Linux PC and then mount the drives on that in read-only mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 tim call me 0161 XXXXXXX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.RAD Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Panda to the rescue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Out of interest, was it a Netgear NAS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 just spoke and having a look around for tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Out of interest, was it a Netgear NAS? yes it was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhett Turner - Black Country AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hopefully Panda will help but the name raid-x implies some sort of redundancy (raid stands for redundant array of inexpensive/ independent disks) The issue is that one of the levels does not actually provide redundancy (raid 0 - striping). raid 0 helps with performance but the loss of any disk in the set will cause the loss of data from the set as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 RAID X is propietry Netgear grow on demand Raid tech... Good luck Panda..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 the problem was a drive failed, replaced the drive and the OS wiped both working drives. the format of the disk is ext4 Tim we could have a look at http://www.stellarinfo.com/linux-data-recovery.htm if you want to get the drives to me i'll go if you haven't got any one local. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Williams (Panda) - Joint Manchester AO Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 RAID X is propietry Netgear grow on demand Raid tech... Good luck Panda..! i'll have a read up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Will be very inerested to hear what happened... Currently sat looking at my ReadyNas NV+ NV2 with 4 WD Red 2Tb in it. RAID is supposed to protect data from a single drive failure. Edit, just noticed you are talking about a twin bay NAS, mine is a four bay... Still worrying though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackydo Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 I have two Ds213 nas boxes from Synology and back the important stuff up to both, and maybe some Google drive stuff also. I keep them in different parts of the house. Can't be too careful or paranoid about your data and stuff. So I have things backed up to spare disk drives which are then sealed in Tupperware and buried in the garden. I may have exaggerated things slightly on that last bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Totally agreed... I'm running CAT6 to the shed and the 2nd Netgear will go there... That will cover the house burning down scenario. And before anybody asks, is any of my data that important, Nah... Paranoia is just a nice hobby..! Synology is nice stuff - are you an Apple user? Synology and Apple go nicely together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackydo Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 No windows mostly and some Linux. Also Untangle to manage the network, firewall, NAT, DHCP, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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