Hard Drive Recovery Group Offers Expedited RAID Recovery Services

As part of its overall data recovery service portfolio, Hard Drive Recovery Group now offers 24 hour expedited RAID recovery service for business customers with critical data losses.

Servers based around RAID 5 and up disk arrays are commonly used throughout the business community in general, and typically house such mission-critical applications like Microsoft's Exchange or database programs like Oracle. These kind of applications tend to contain extremely sensitive and valuable data which simply cannot be lost without considerable damage to the company.

While most IT Administrators worth their salt operate daily backups to ensure their data is protected, backup hardware is often dated and non-functional when needed most - when it is necessary to restore a backup.

"Companies throughout California and the US tend to invest quite a lot of money and resources into their actual network hardware," said Maureen Davies of Hard Drive Recovery Group. "But where unfortunately where the investment tends to lack is in the backup space. Many companies use virtually brand new RAID arrays for their networks, but 10 and 15 year old backup systems."

Rebuilding RAID Arrays With Single Drive Failures

Whether a server's RAID array is software based or hardware assisted, coping with a single drive failure is often not very difficult. In fact, many built-in RAID utilities will allow the Administrator to quickly and easily mount a new hard drive to the array and fully secure the drives while shifting them away from a degraded mode. Furthermore, more complex RAID disk setups like RAID 6 provide additional flexibility by often including dual drive failure protection, which can often completely skirt the need for professional RAID recovery in most catastrophic drive loss scenarios.

"Where many Administrators tend to have the most difficulty is when multiple hard drives in a disk array fail," said Davies. "While included RAID utilities can be helpful in some situations, an inexperienced Administrator can easily create a massive problem for their machine when they are unsure of what remedies to pursue. In cases like this, a RAID recovery expert can be absolutely critical."

Understanding Data Recovery Services

Across the country, most IT Administrators are fairly unaware of the data recovery options available to them when they have a laptop or RAID server with a mechanical failure. This can create panic situations when it is discovered that backup schedules (which are not always strictly adhered to) have not properly saved mission critical data.

"The data recovery business is one where sadly too few people have a partnership with a company that they know they can trust beforea hard drive fails or data loss rears its ugly head," said Davies. "This can create a situation where mission critical data hangs in the balance while an Administrator determines the best course of action."

Lost productivity due to failed RAID arrays costs US companies millions of dollars per year. The key to any professional RAID recovery, aside from experience and technical equipment and ability, is speed. The faster a company's mission critical application can be brought online, the less is lost in company time.

As a result of this fact, Hard Drive Recovery Group's expedited RAID recovery service truly offers a leading edge option for companies that can't afford to wait days or even weeks for a fully restored RAID 5 server. By using a network of drop-ship companies, Hard Drive Recovery Group RAID repair technicians can restore a RAID array either remotely (in some cases) or in lab, and then return the fully recovered array or data within 24 hours or less. It's a service many customers are glad to use when their workers are frozen by malfunctioning machines.

"Being able to recover RAID data from a disaster situation in less than 24 hours takes a potentially horrible situation and transforms it into manageable," said Davies. "When things go wrong, it's nice to know that you have a solid data recovery service provider to help you out."