So yesterday I get in a Lacie 6Tb Network RAID (sorry it has no model number that I can tell). The IT guy who brought it in has no idea of the original configuration, and it's already been looked at by Lacie's "data recovery service" who said it couldn't be recovered.
So here's what I find. It has 4 - 1.5Tb Seagate drives in it. One which clearly had been opened before had catastrophically failed (black dust everywhere). Of the other three two are a bit glitchy, but so far are cloning without any bad sectors in DE.
Now I would normally assume on a RAID 5 configuration, but after checking the partition tables I find that all three drives have a single 1.5Tb partition. This would make sense only if they were all just mirrors, but the data doesn't line up making me think it is a stripe array or possibly an odd JBOD configuration...
That, or the data recovery "engineers" over there at Lacie did something stupid like initializing the drives before attempting to recover it. Any thoughts before I go to work trying to figure this beast out? I haven't dealt with Lacie RAID too much, only one or two NAS.
So here's what I find. It has 4 - 1.5Tb Seagate drives in it. One which clearly had been opened before had catastrophically failed (black dust everywhere). Of the other three two are a bit glitchy, but so far are cloning without any bad sectors in DE.
Now I would normally assume on a RAID 5 configuration, but after checking the partition tables I find that all three drives have a single 1.5Tb partition. This would make sense only if they were all just mirrors, but the data doesn't line up making me think it is a stripe array or possibly an odd JBOD configuration...
That, or the data recovery "engineers" over there at Lacie did something stupid like initializing the drives before attempting to recover it. Any thoughts before I go to work trying to figure this beast out? I haven't dealt with Lacie RAID too much, only one or two NAS.