Raid 5 data recovery

radio · 28 Jan 2007 at 17:33

I have three hard drives that I believe were in raid5 config. How do I go about recovering the data on them?

Cheers.

Jimathy · 28 Jan 2007 at 18:18

first thing you'll need to know is the make/model of raid controller they were setup on i should think.

rpstewart · 28 Jan 2007 at 19:56

Jimathy said:
first thing you'll need to know is the make/model of raid controller they were setup on i should think.

Yeah, you'll only be able to get the data back if you use the same controller as the original array. Not sure about all controllers but the ones I've used have the option to read the array config from the disks and put the array back together.

radio · 28 Jan 2007 at 22:35

Jimathy said:
first thing you'll need to know is the make/model of raid controller they were setup on i should think.

I think it was a dell perc 2. The hard drives themselves are old (3 x 7GB).