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Recovering RAID Arrays at Home: The Easy Way

Due to the many modern motherboards manufactured by all major chipset makers such as Intel, NVIDIA, and VIA, numerous computer users opt to increase the performance of their disk sub-systems by creating a RAID array. RAID arrays made with ordinary, consumer-grade hard drives are surely increasing performance, yet at the cost of reliability. The more disks comprise the array, the more marginal the benefits in performance are, and the faster is the decrease in reliability. A two-disk stripe array is already four times less reliable than a single disk, yet at offers less than double performance compared to a single disk.

No wonder homegrown RAIDs fail much more often than those created and managed in server environments. When corrupted, the user is left with two or more disks that contain no usable information when looked at separately. In order to extract information from them, it is necessary to reconstruct the array first. But what if the RAID controller does not accept the disks back into the array, or accepts them only to display an empty drive? Even worse, what if the original RAID controller, dedicated or built into the motherboards, fails and is no longer available?

In that case, users have a choice of forgetting about their files, paying to a data recovery company, or trying to recover the RAID at home. Until recently, the at-home approach would not yield reasonable results, but today there are tools on the market that help home users do the job without erasing all their files.

Raid Recovery by First NTFS Recovery http://ntfs-recovery.com/ has recently released a new RAID recovery tool specifically aimed at home users. Raid Recovery offers fully automated operation, automatically detecting the exact type of the array, type and manufacturer of the original RAID controller that was used to create the broken array, as well as the number and order of disks comprising the array. Sounds complicated? It's really not, as the new tool makes everything internally and without requiring any user input. What's best, Raid Recovery does not require the original RAID controller to be working or even installed in the system. In fact, it does not require any RAID controller at all!

Raid Recovery makes it possible to recover all types of RAID arrays, including RAID 0, 1, JBOD, RAID 5, and 0+1. Supporting many dedicated RAID controllers and all RAID-enabled motherboards made by Intel, NVIDIA, and VIA, Raid Recovery can also recover Dynamic Disks, a type of software-based RAID arrays managed by Windows Server operating systems.

Raid Recovery does not require a Windows Server system to work, though. Running on every 32-bit version of Windows since Windows 95 and up to the latest Vista and 2008 Server, Raid Recovery supports all types of file systems ever included with Windows. All revisions of FAT and NTFS are supported, including FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, NTFS, NTFS 4, and NTFS 5.

Raid Recovery features the company's signature data recovery algorithms, PowerSearch and Live Preview. PowerSearch enables the tool to recover more than 150 types of files from badly damaged disks and RAID arrays with some disks missing or physically damaged. Live Preview makes it possible to preview the content of each recoverable file, image, or document before purchasing Raid Recovery.

The free evaluation version of Raid Recovery is available at http://ntfs-recovery.com/

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