There are many reasons why a RAID goes down. A technician will normally assume that one or more of the drives have failed. This is a common diagnosis as the diagnostic lights on each of the drives may be blinking, the lights may have gone amber, or in some cases the drive may not be […]
Western Digital My Book Problem Question and Answer
Have a Technician Help Now! Name*CompanyEmail* Phone*Device*Hard DriveRAIDServerSD CardThumb DriveTabletPhoneOtherMedia Size*0GB – 1TB1.5TB – 2TB3TB and upProblem Δ Below are some more fun Q&A about hard drive recovery. I have given what I think is the best solution to these problems. As always please leave a comment if you have a question or contact me […]
RAID 5 Stale drive detection
Over the course of a week I receive several calls regarding the recovery of a RAID 5 array. In the course of the initial interrogation of a client I ask several questions regarding the state of the array, what has been done to recover the array and most importantly what happened to the array that […]