If Your RAID Controller Fails

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What to Do If Your RAID Controller Fails

The number of RAID-enabled systems used at homes is constantly increasing. RAID is the most affordable way to improve system performance. However, the additional performance of the disk subsystem comes at the cost of reduced reliability. The decrease in reliability is non-linear, meaning that when more disks are added to the array, the entire array is exponentially more likely to fail. In contrast, the increase in performance is linear at best; in reality, each subsequent disk added to a RAID array affects the entire system's performance less than the disk before it.

Setting aside the discussion of whether it's worth it or not, Raid Recovery is designed to help those computer users who employed RAID arrays to get the increase in performance, but experienced the other side of the medal with a failed RAID controller, one or more damaged disks comprising the array, or corrupted logical structures such as the file system, partition table or MBR.

If your RAID controller has failed, using Raid Recovery is one of the fastest and cost-effective ways to repair the system at home, without pulling the disks from the PC and shipping them to a data recovery company. Raid Recovery makes it possible to anyone to recover data and reconstruct broken RAID arrays - no matter whether the original RAID controller is working, installed or even present in the PC.

Raid Recovery offers a completely full-proof Automatic mode. In this mode, Raid Recovery automatically detects the exact type of the RAID array (mirror, stripe, or hybrid), identifies the manufacturer of the RAID controller used to create the array, and detects essential parameters such as the number and order of disks comprising the array.

For more experienced users, Manual mode allows re-creating the array by simply dragging and dropping icons representing separate hard drives. It is possible to set or modify all configuration parameters such as type of the array, RAID controller, stripe size, and disk order.

Compatibility

Working in all versions of Windows since Windows 95 and up to the latest and newest Windows Vista, 2008 Server, and upcoming Windows 7, Raid Recovery supports every revision of FAT and NTFS out there. Raid Recovery can detect and repair all types of RAID arrays, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, and JBOD.

Most dedicated RAID controllers and all major native RAID chipsets used in modern motherboards manufactured by Intel, NVIDIA, and VIA are supported with or without the original controller installed. Raid Recovery supports Microsoft Dynamic Disks (software-based RAID) in all configurations. In order to make the recovery safer, Raid Recovery can save files being recovered onto a separate media, burn them onto a CD or DVD, transfer to a remote location over the network, or upload them with FTP.

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

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