I was able to get most of the critical data (photos, documents, mp3s) off before it was corrupted. All I really lost was ripped DVDs/Bluray and tv shows. We still have many of the discs, so I can get that back.
Even with RAID 6, the data is striped across all the drives. So yes you are good for up to two failures, but there are still a lot of things that could go wrong. And the drives in that array are only good as a unit - you can't pull one out and mount it elsewhere to access the data. That's what's driving me towards FlexRAID. --- Brian On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Harry McGregor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would give it a shot, but I would first shutdown the server, and I would > image all of the drives for use in the recovery. (yes, I know it's a lot of > space). This is part of the reason why I run Raid6 at home. > > You don't want to risk further corruption writing to and trying to use the > array in it's current condition. > > Harry > > > On 3/10/11 1:59 PM, Brian Weeden wrote: > > Harry - > > Thanks for the link to that DefCon talk. That is some really cool stuff. > I wonder if it will help me out at all? I can view my RAID array and see > all the files, but many of them are corrupted. Was that R-studio tool able > to fill in for a missing drive? I wonder if that can help me. > > At $80, it's probably worth a shot. > > --- > Brian > >> >> > >
