- Lost volume
- Broken arrays
- Physically
or Logically Damaged Drives within the Array
- Missing Volume
Tables
- Corrupted
RAID Configurations
- Lost container
- Volume Corruption
- Multiple
Disk Failure
- Controller
Failure
- Server Configuration
Lost
- Missing Container
- Malicious
Damage
- Virus Attack
- Missing Partitions
- Lost Key
information
- OS and File
System Corruption
- Failed Drive(s)
- Reformat
or Reinstallations
- Parity Errors
Common RAID Configurations:
• RAID-0.
This technique offers striping but no redundancy of data. It offers
the best performance but no fault-tolerance and if a drive fails in
RAID 0 only repair and reassembly of the volume will result in a recovery.
• RAID-1.
This type is also known as disk mirroring and consists of at least
two drives that duplicate the storage of data. This may become a problem
should you experience a corruption of data. You will then have 2 copies
of bad data. This is recoverable
• RAID-2.
This type uses striping across disks with some disks storing error
checking and correcting (ECC) information.
• RAID-3.
This type uses striping and dedicates one drive to storing parity
information. Should 2 drives in the system fail at once, only hard
drive repair and volume restoration will result in a RAID recovery.
• RAID-4.
This type uses large stripes, which means you can read records from
any single drive.
• RAID-5.
(Most common) This type includes a rotating parity array. This type
requires at least three and usually five disks for the array but can
hold more. Should 2 drives in the system fail at once only hard drive
repair or volume restoration will result in a recovery