Monday, September 14, 2009

RAID 30 Failure and Recovery

RAID 30 implements parity and block striping and byte striping. Also termed as striping of dedicated parity arrays, it is formed by striping the data across several sub-arrays i.e. it is a unique combination of 3 and 0. The data storage on this proceeds by dividing data into several small blocks and then striping them to each member of this set. It calculates the parity by using X-OR on the data blocks and then uses the last drive to write this information in each of the arrays. However, rest other drives in each array are used to store data blocks. But in some critical set of conditions, a array might get lost due to multiple hard drive failure. In such situations, RAID Recovery Service provides effective recovery solution to recover the lost data.

Chances of failure

It can tolerate failure of up to 4 drives provided each of the failed disk is of different array. It implies if one drive from each of the set fails, no data will be lost. Until you replace the failed drive , the remaining drives in the that set serve as single point of failure for the complete array. Thus, if any of these drives fail at any moment, the entire array will get lost and there will be no access to stored data. In conclusion, RAID 30 fails if two or more hard drives fail in same RAID 3 set.

Recovery

These hard drives fail because of common reasons such as read/write head failure, motor crash, wear and tear and so forth, but with a major difference that they are arranged in a standard fashion. So, recovering from such array requires expertise and use of advanced recovery tools and procedures.

RAID Data Recovery service is aimed at recovering lost data from all types of RAID levels and in all types of crashes. Technicians providing RAID Recovery Service employ high end methods to safely extract all the data from RAID arrays by opening and examining the failed hard drives in Clean Room surroundings.

Paul Harry has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology field working as a freelancer with Stellar which offers RAID Data Recovery and Laptop Hard Drive Recovery for more than 10 years.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Paul_Harry

No comments:

Post a Comment

DATA RECOVERY Headline Animator

DATA RECOVERY