Factors Affecting the Cost and Turn Around Time of Raid Server Data Recovery

Adroit Data Recovery Centre had successfully recovered thousands of RAID servers and arrays with different configuration and problem. Most of the time, the situation of each case is seldom identical. The data volume size may ranges from a few GB to a few TB. It could vary from a single to extremely complex RAID configuration with multiple raid controllers.

Modern raid using 250 GB IDE or SATA disks could easily contains terabytes of data so the recovery process of raid will usually be tedious and time consuming. We could be talking about 2 days to 2 weeks for a full RAID data recovery. Even if the used data size is small, the raid recovery process could be tedious if large capacity disks are used for the raid elements as we have to analyse fully each of the disk in turn in order to retrieve data.

As an example, another factor affecting the complexity of raid recovery is the number of disk elements making up the raid volume. In general, if the number of disk elements is more than 10 and the users happen to lose the original disk order and strip block size , it is then rather tedious and complex to back compute these parameters. The scenario soon becomes impossible as the number of disks is approaching 14, which is the normal maximum number of disk elements per raid volume. Inevitably, the number of disks some times will poise a greater complexity than the shear raid array size and the cost of recovery will therefore be higher.

In general, pricing of raid recovery starts from S$1500 onwards and will be more as the situations get more complexed.

To established a more exact feel of the cost of recovery of your RAID system, please give us a call and our consultant will be able to give you a good idea of the pricing range based on your RAID configuration and circumstances. To establish a more exact price, we will need you to send us your drives so an evaluation could be made before a firm price is quoted. The RAID evaluation process will be between 1 to 3 days, depending on the complexity involved.

Please contact us and we will be happy to give a free consultation on raid recovery before you make the next move.