Mass storage media has gone through an extraordinary evolution in the past ten years. From the migration of server side technology only being available to high end enterprise corporate entities to the average end user in their home trying to maintain their critical data the influx of simple storage devices has been astronomical. There are […]
RAID 5 Failure and XOR Mathematics in NTFS 5 Part 4
We have had three installments on RAID 5 failure and how the XOR operation gives us insight into discovering the stripe size and drive order for an array. Understanding the next installment is critical to the entire method of reverse engineering a RAID 5 configuration. We understand that when we use an XOR operation on the […]
RAID 5 Recovery and XOR Mathematics in NTFS 5 Part 3
In this installment we will explore the practical use of XORing within the context of a RAID 5 recovery. Although the use of this math function in and of itself does not constitute RAID recovery, there are attributes of the mathematics that lend itself to data signatures that can then be used to acquire the […]
