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 […]
Network Attached Storage NAS and Other Nightmares
Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices have been a boon for storage technology. What a great windfall for the industry. Grab yourself an Open Source operating system, stick it on a prom, get yourself an inexpensive motherboard, some hard drives and presto chango, abbrakadabbra you got yourself a $1000.00 4 terabyte storage device that will mount […]
Recovering a badly fragmented Outlook PST file after a few rounds with chkdsk The Final Installment
Welcome back! As before, we still have the problem where chkdsk was run on a RAID with a stale drive. We have had a brief explanation of how NTFS 5 works and how the data is stored on the volume. Lets take a much more detailed look as to how the data is stored in […]