[sdiy] OT: how to save a dead Raided Drive?

[Scott Nordlund]

If it's RAID then it's RAID 0, all the data is striped across both drives with no redundancy, so if one drive fails, all the data is lost.  If the drives were independent (no RAID, no data striping), they would likely have separate drive letters.  You may want to try to put the drives into an identical Lacie enclosure, which should tell you if it's a controller issue (of course there are other ways to go about it as well).

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> From: subjectivity at hotmail.com
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:28:26 +0000
> Subject: [sdiy] OT: how to save a dead Raided Drive?
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> I am asking on this list because I know that many of you have a lot of experience with computers:
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> tonight i had the worst possible thing happen to my computer
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> my 3yr old 500 gig lacie ext hard drive died. (and no, i had not backed it up...money for a new drive had been non-existent)
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> this had three years worth of Logic song projects (many unmixed) ALL My datasheets, schematics, etc, as well as all my family's photos, etc.
> and over 100 gigs of itunes.
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> now since it is 2 WestDigital 250gig drives in the box, i am assuming it is a raid setup with a disk controller card of some kind
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> one thing i see happen a lot with my clients is that the disk controller dies,
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> BUT then i wonder, if i get these drives into their own new enclosure, since they were in a RAID array, how do i get the
> computer to read them properly? does the raid system split the data among the 2 drives, or is it really just 2 separate drives that could
> be read separately?
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> it is very unlikely that both drives would mechanically fail at once right?
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> anyway.....
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> at least i got my OTA problem solved
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> :(
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> any help, thoughts , appreciated
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> thanks
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