One dead member silences a whole RAID 0 — but silenced isn't erased. Bring the complete set and every member is imaged, the stripe's geometry solved, and your files put back together entirely in software.
No RAID quote is guesswork. Free diagnostic first, then one written figure — from £500 + VAT by member count, logical recoveries under no fix, no fee.
A RAID 0 deals every file out across its full membership and keeps nothing in reserve — the volume survives only as long as its unluckiest disk does.
Fragments only, spread across every member — one dead drive and the whole volume goes quiet. The road back is capturing all the members and reassembling the scatter in software.
No parity, no mirror — that was the price paid for the speed. A stripe can't regrow a missing piece of itself, which leaves disciplined imaging as the only honest route home.
A dead controller, bridge or enclosure routinely strands a healthy set. The job turns into solving the layout of the stripe and raising the volume from captures of each member.
Re-creating the array, or a firmware wobble, can erase the figures that describe the stripe's layout. Rebuilt with wrong numbers the data reads as static — the true values get dug out of the captures themselves.
With files interleaved across the set, one patch of failing sectors on one member takes a bite out of hundreds of files. Imaging hardware gathers every readable sector around the rot.
Format, initialise and 'repair' run against a broken stripe flatten the on-disk structures a recovery leans against. Already happened? Then hands off from here — power the lot down.
With nothing redundant in the design, every disk holds data no other disk has. Each member goes onto a hardware imager — any physically failed drive visiting the clean bench first — and from those captures we recover member order, block size and the offset where the stripe begins. Reassembly happens in software, a file system is raised on the result, and the files come out — with not one write landing on an original.
A striped set can't heal itself, and a faltering member surrenders a little more each time the power arrives. The right move is dull: shut everything down, keep the initialise and repair buttons unpressed — each writes over the layout evidence a reconstruction depends on — and get the complete set of disks here exactly as they were found.
Video-editing machines, gaming builds, small servers and speed-first NAS units — striped volumes reach this bench from homes and businesses across York, Tadcaster, Middlesbrough and the wider county. All the members travel together to our Leeds location — tracked, insured post, or down the A64 with you. The fuller story sits under RAID recovery and NAS recovery, with prices on the data recovery cost page.
The set gets imaged, the layout solved, your files handed back — free diagnosis, then a written figure.
Nearly every job on our bench arrived by tracked, insured post — it's the quickest, safest route in. There's no collection service, so the parcel is yours to send or hand in.
Is the drive still inside a computer, laptop, MacBook, iMac, CCTV / DVR or server? Take the hard drive or SSD out first and post the bare drive on its own — removing drives from machines isn't a service we offer. Storage that's soldered to a motherboard (Apple Silicon Macs, certain slim laptops) is the one thing we can't work on: if it doesn't come out, it can't come in.
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