I just paid LaCie $1200 to recover data from a 4 bay LaCie raid drive that the enclosure failed. Can I be assured that I can get my data from this?
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You should keep a separate backup on a non RAID disk. RAID is not backup. It would have been a lot cheaper to keep separate backups with one off-site. You are lucky you got any of the data back. Three rules of computers: 1. Backup 2. Backup3. BackupIt is not a question of if a machine will fail but when. So, no, there is no assurance.
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With a little know how and Linux, YES.http://www.anandtech.com/show/8399/recovering-data-from-a-failed-synology-nas
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With a little know how and Linux, YES. http://www.anandtech.com/show/8399/recovering-data-from-a-failed-synology-nas
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If the drive is defective, you pay the postage to send it back to the manufacture and they will replace it with another refurbished drive. It is not a new drive. After 5 defective 2TB drive inside 2 years, we have moved our business to a different drive manufacture. IT is not the cost of the drive that is most expensive cost, it is the cost to rebuild your files that were lost. Hitachi apologizes but didn't really care.
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I have had nothing but bad luck with LaCie drives, I have had two of them not function out of the box. My experience is the exact opposite with the G Drive, these drives are quiet, and seem to run forever. I have not had a single issue with any one of the seven I own
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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Yes you can. Go to CNET.com and look for recovery software. I do it all the time.
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Unfortunately, no. I returned my Seagate drive with out even taking it out of the anti-static wrapper. Seagate quality has been suspect as of late and I didnt want to chance my data being lost.
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I don't any of the data error recovery capabilities, but I wouldn't expect any in it. You can replace drives and restore from backups. The manual for this model is here: http://buffalo.jp/support_s/guide/path/lswxl/en/manual/manual.html
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Drive is about to fail. Try to recover data and send in to Seagate for a new drive.
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This is a data cable, works like a external HD enclosure. If the HD is broken, it is not likely helpful to retrieve any data. Unless what broken is the enclosure of your external HD, not the HD.
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Lacie will send you a replacement if the drive doesn't work. If under warranty they will respond quickly and send you a shipping label to send back the damage drive. In the past they did have a service to rescue the media, but its costly unless you have everything backed up.
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You'll need to be more specific in order to get a valid answer, but here is an answer based on the info on your question: Maybe. If it's a standard SATA drive with no encryption then you should be able to get the info. Is something wrong with the new drive?
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I purchased a 1 TB Seagate expansion drive to back up files on my MacBook. I formatted it using disk utilities, and then the computer would not recognize the drive at all. So now I cannot recover my files. Seagate said that they will replace the drive under warranty, but in order to recover the files on it, they wanted at least $300!! My advice - stay away from these Seagate drives.
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I believe so. I have a 5 drive raid at home & brought a new one home that I purchased for work & put the 5 drives in & the raid came right back. To me, this was VERY important if I ever have a failed Raid box. So in my case, it worked-but I did buy the 2 enclosures within a month of each other.
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You should be able to recover data if your computer is set up to get into the external floppy disk. I have no problem with mine.
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My drive wouldn't mount on most of my computers, and would hammer and click for a while before showing up on one. Another computer started working just fine, so I just used it there, but the drive letters started switching all around before it just wouldn't mount anymore. I opened it up, very difficult to do, thinking I'd be able to mount and recover the data but it looks like won't be that easy. I'd try another computer, and take your data off it and consider it unreliable
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That is the theory of a RAID 5. I had a 4TB drive fail after a month on duty. Western Digital immediately sent me a new one, I plugged it in and it took about four days to re-establish the full RAID. My 16TB with 12 TB usable space on RAID 5 was loaded with 4TB of records. So, if you want to upgrade your system one drive at a time, better be patient.
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I Sorry, but I haven't Lacie Rugged, I have Seagate and Toshiba and is very nice to both.