Retrodata RAID Recovery

PowerVault Recovery.
By professional engineers.

Our engineers recover Dell Powervault storage from almost any data or hardware failure. Regardless of how your device has failed, crashed drive, failed RAID, file system corruption, deleted data – they are able to retrieve and restore data from practically any form of failed storage. They are standing by, ready to step up and assist. Quickly.

With some of the industry’s leading RAID recovery engineers, we are able to move quickly and effectively if you are the victim of data failure and critical system downtime. Recovering Dell PowerVault drives from any crash requires skills – whatever the failure, including multiple hard drive failure or data corruption – requires skills and in-depth knowledge of hardware, file systems and operating systems that are found only in the top RAID recovery providers.

PowerVault in fault state

Firmware update failure

Predicted drive failure

Failed drive

RAID rebuild failure

RAID rebuild in progress

Cannot mount volume or partition

Degraded RAID volume

There are occasions, for example when data has been deleted, that it is best to prevent an orderly shutdown and immediately pull all power to the PowerVault. If you contact us, we will explain the reasons for this. Whatever the failure or circumstances, Retrodata engineers have the capacity, skills and determination to reduce your downtime to the absolute minimum.

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Recovering Dell PowerVault RAID from all models

Powervault NX300
Integration of Windows Storage Server 2008
4 drive capacity SATA or SAS
Hardware RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10

Powervault NX3000
6 drive capacity
Hardware RAID as above

Powervault NX3100
12 drive capacity
Hardware RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 50

We recover failed PowerVault from the following:
Failed hard drive – or muiltiple drive failure
Firmware or software update corruption
RAID rebuild failed
Corrupt inode
Corrupt superblock
System corruption
Cannot access share
Storage pool failed
Power surge or failure

PowerVault MD1220
2.5″ drives – up to 24 per array.
Support for Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008, Red Hat Linux, SuSE
Enclosure status LED lights blue – normal operation
Blinks and flashes orange or amber when there is a fault
LED light blinks green, orange and off – predicted drive failure
Quickly blinking orange LED light – drive failed
Slowly flashes green – RAID rebuilding
Blinks green then orange then off – RAID rebuild failed
EMM status LED light orange – device will not boot
Flashes amber – cannot communicate with internal drives
Blinking amber – firmware update failed
PowerVault MD1200
2.5″ and 3.5″ drives – 12 drives per array

PowerVault MD1000
3.5″ SAS and SATA drives – 15 per array
Corrupted RAID
PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i management software

Dell PERC H800 RAID controller
Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60