0 QNAP RAID Recovery & NAS

Hello everyone! I've talked about RAID 5 data recovery in one of my earlier posts. I've mentioned that if more than one drive fails in a RAID 5 array, it won't be possible to recover data, and that's the way it works. But lately, I've come accross something while I'm browsing the web. It's a service called by a company called QNAP, and they allow you to recover your RAID (works with RAID 0,1 and 6 as well) even though more than the allowed number of disks are crashed. The reason why I give credit to this company in my post is because before looking on their website, I didn't know such a thing existed. It always makes me happy to learn new...

0 RAID 5 Data Recovery

Hello everyone! After a long break, today's topic is RAID 5 data recovery! First things first, let's start off with what RAID is. RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a storage system where more than one disk is used. The data is distributed into those disks to prevent data loss in a case where one or more disks malfunction depending on which RAID level is used. There are different RAID levels from RAID 0 to RAID 6 (and RAID 10), each with different attributes. Today, I will be specifically talking about RAID 5 since it's the most popularly used, (although being replaced slowly by RAID 6) and the safest RAID level. Image from Wikipedia. Link First...