Our data recovery services are so varied that it would not be possible to have a stock price list. Instead, we invite you to contact us with general queries or, for more complex data loss situations, please use the detailed technical enquiry form. For those clients outside the UK, we also offer international data recovery services.

Our engineers recover data from any failed LinkStation whether it has a crashed hard drive, failed or degraded RAID array, volume corruption, firmware update failure, system corruption – even if you simply cannot access the device or share.

Recovering Your Data

Please contact us with general queries or, for more complex data loss situations, please use the detailed technical enquiry form. For those clients outside the UK, we also offer international data recovery services. We offer competitive rates, quick turnaround and offer advice on how to pack your media.

We can often regenerate and rebuild your RAID and start recovering your data within an hour of receipt using our emergency data recovery service

RAID Recovery Experts

Our engineers have world-class RAID recovery skills. Together with their in-depth knowledge of file systems and operating systems, they will be able to restore your lost or missing data. Quickly and efficiently.

• Operating systems: Windows, Apple Mac OS, Linux, UNIX, Novell and proprietary systems
• RAID Levels RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 to RAID 30, RAID 50, RAID 60, RAID 10
• File systems: NTFS, HFS+, Ext3, Ext4, ZFS, XFS, UFS

Buffalo LinkStation Data Recovery Causes

• Hard drive failed – or multiple drive failure
• Overheating, causing hard drive failure
• RAID rebuild failed (all models with multiple drives)
• Firmware upgrade failed or firmware corruption, causing loss of access to device or data
• Corrupt file system
• LinkStation crashed for no apparent reason
• IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent data loss)

About Buffalo LinkStation

Buffalo LinkStation devices are a popular method of storing, backing up and sharing data in a busy office environment. However, these devices are not supposed to be used as secure backups, and things do go wrong.

• Hard drive failure – red LED light
• LaCie software update failure
• RAID rebuild failure
• Overheating – flashing blue and red light
• Accidental re-format
• RAID array reinitialised
• RAID level migration failure
• Cannot access device or volume

If your LinkStation has a failed RAID and you have tried a RAID rebuild, or you cannot access the device, because a firmware update failed, we’ll recover it. Or maybe a hard disk crashed. Even if the file system is corrupt, we’ll recover your data. We offer Buffalo LinkStation Recovery services from all devices.

If you try to recover the LinkStation yourself, you may cause further damage. You might even cause complete data loss.

Buffalo LinkStation Products

Buffalo LinkStation Duo

• RAID 0 and RAID 1 support
• Active Directory support
• Apple Time Machine support

Buffalo LinkStation Live

• Single hard drive – no redundancy.
• No cooling fan – failure caused by overheating possible

Buffalo LinkStation Mini NAS

• Two 2.5″ hard drive capacity
• RAID 0 and RAID 1 support
• Active Directory support
• Apple Time Machine support

Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo

• Two 3.5″ hard drive capacity
• RAID 0 and RAID 1 support
• Active Directory support

Buffalo LinkStation Quad

• Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 (default) and RAID 10
• Four drive capacity
• Hot-swap facility
• Apple Time Machine compatible

We specialise in the recovery of failed hard drives, failed RAID or corrupt RAID arrays and RAID storage devices. Our data recovery services provide disk recovery, file recovery, laptop data recovery and a quick recovery for raid using our own, specialist RAID recovery software. We recover data from any device, any file system and any operating system.

Please contact us with general queries or, for more complex data loss situations, please use the detailed technical enquiry form. For those clients outside the UK, we also offer international data recovery services so that, wherever you are in the world, you can take advantage of our industry-leading RAID recovery skills.

RAID Recovery Process

We recover lost RAID data from any RAID Level, RAID Controller or RAID Architecture. We’re experts at NAS recovery, complex SAN recovery (Storage Area Networks) and XSan storage systems. We will help recover RAID data no matter what the data loss, what the operating system or what the media.

• Emergency RAID recovery services with rapid turnaround for mission-critical data
• How to pack your devices for delivery
• Free diagnosis and evaluation.
• No charges if we are unable to recover your data.
• A totally confidential service. Your data is safe with us.
• Detailed recovery procedure for your clarity

RAID Recovery Experts

If you have been told by another data recovery company, your IT support engineers or even the manufacturer of your device that it is unrecoverable, all hope is not necessarily lost. With RAID systems, we find this is actually rarely the case and often prove that the data is fully intact. We invite you to send the storage device to us for free diagnosis. Our success in this scenario is high – currently 100% – and we have saved many clients’ data from total loss.

• We are a major, approved supplier of RAID recovery and data recovery services to UK Universities and Hospitals.
• We are an indispensable resource of disaster recovery solutions and specialists at recovering non-standard and proprietary storage devices.
• We have maintained a 100% RAID recovery success rate since June 2009. This includes massive RAID storage arrays with multiple failed drives.
• We’re acknowledged by other recovery companies across the globe to be one of the most valuable resources for RAID data recovery from complex storage systems.