A typical situation that we see in support requests almost every day: «Hello friends, good day. I have one case here. I have 3 disks, but 1 is dead. I clone full 2 disks in two images. Client dont know what RAID is it. I try search RAID 5…

RAIDz is essentially an analogue of RAID5 (http://www.freeraidrecovery.com/library/raid-5-6.aspx) array, which is used in data storage systems based on ZFS technology. Although a pool of disks combined in RAIDz has the same single-disk fault tolerance as RAID5, the mechanism for implementing this differs from the classic RAID5 technology. So, in RAID5…

TRIM — is one of commands sending by operating system to inform a solid-state drive that a user deleted SSD data, and occupied physical cells can be released. …

RAID means Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It’s the way to combine several disks in one data storage. There are three methods of storing data in RAIDs: striping, mirroring and parity. Striping divides data on blocks and writes them one by one across the disks. Mirroring stores copies of data…

Deleted files recovery is the simplest and the most popular case. The result of the recovery depends on several factors: how much time has passed from the moment you deleted the file to the moment you decided to recover it, how full the device with data, what filesystem is used…

Generally, there are three reasons why you can’t access your laptop data: logical problem, laptop issue and hard drive failure. In practice, if your laptop doesn’t work, for example, it doesn’t start at all or Windows freezes when attempting to access the drive — it is difficult to detect why…

So, your NETGEAR ReadyNAS device doesn’t power up. What to do? NETGEAR is one of well-known NAS vendors. Inside its ReadyNAS devices disks are combined into a RAID and used to store data. Some years ago storing data on NETGEAR devices was organized in the following way: disks are cut…

The most common reasons why you need to recover data from the external hard drive include: Deleting one or several files by mistake. Accidental formatting the external hard drive Filesystem failure. This last mentioned reason is quite common because users often connect and disconnect the external hard drive without using…

No matter what RAID level is used in your Buffalo — the recovery actions are the same as with other NASes. Get the disks out of the Buffalo, connect them to a PC running Windows, launch ReclaiMe File Recovery software and save the recovered data. To get the disks out…