Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
I have a Highpoint rocketraid 1640 and overnight it appears to have lost the array.
I had 4x maxtor 300GB drives in a 900GB RAID5 array and on reboot this morning the array is broken.
All the drives are there connected and working but at startup drives 1+4 show in the first array window and the state as "broken" then in the next window drives 2+3 show and the array "broken", so all are connected and recognised but the array is broken and will not function.
I need to get this array up and working and as it was a RAID5 array I thought fault tolerance was ok and I have only got approx half the data backed up (I should have backed it all up I know) ...
Does anyone have any experience of these cards or similar problems with other cards .... is it possible to recover my data or have I lost it?
Thx
Chris
ps. I have emailed Highpoint support about this as well
Re: Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
Please let me know what files they sent you. I am having problems with the same card and two of my drives.
Thanks:ill:
Re: Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
Hi,
Do you still have this sw? I am having the same problem, but support says they dont have the product anymore - and the people used to support it do not work there anymore.....
pls.....help :-)
br
jm
Re: Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
basically, rebuild and use your backup.
Re: Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
well, the idea with the sw utility were not to loosing data... only rebuilding the array.
If I had a backup, then it would be ok - but some of us are actually using nas w/raid as the backup :-)
And there are some historical data that I only store on my raid as well...
Re: Highpoint Rocketraid 1640
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Originally Posted by
jmorten
well, the idea with the sw utility were not to loosing data... only rebuilding the array.
If I had a backup, then it would be ok - but some of us are actually using nas w/raid as the backup :-)
And there are some historical data that I only store on my raid as well...
a backup without a backups not a backup, its a mistake, one you have learnt like lots of us!
if you can afford several hundred pounds for a slim chance of getting it back contact a data recovery company, otherwise you can find out what file system the raid is on and attempt to rebuild it.
short answers, its lost.