Raid 0 failure?

[migeo]

So while listening to some music on youtube, I got a bsod. It was the critical structure corruption error. I was pissed. But what pissed me off even more was when rebooting, I discovered that my 6tb raid 0 array failed. Windows now says that I have drives that needs to be formatted and it doesn't even recognise the other drive. I tried restarting the pc, multiple times, turning it off completely, unplugginf the pc, etc.. Yet nothing worked. I have around 4tb of data and since I'm such a huge ass idiot, a lot of the stuff isn't backed up since I don't have a nas or online storage. Is there a way to fix this and to have as much data back as possible or not? I'm really desperate. Thank you for all the help that I can get

 

BTW, the drive number 3 in the second image was the second raid drive but apparently it's no longer recognised as a raid drive

 

[HPWebcamAble]

You can try data recovery programs, or a service, but it's very unlikely you'll get very much back.

 

This is why we don't use raid 0 kids. When it dies, it dies hard.

[migeo]

1 minute ago, HPWebcamAble said:

You can try data recovery programs, or a service, but it's very unlikely you'll get very much back.

 

This is why we don't use raid 0 kids. When it dies, it dies hard.

Do you have a program that you can suggest?

[HPWebcamAble]

6 minutes ago, migeo said:

Do you have a program that you can suggest?

Since the data is 'stripped' across drives, I believe only tiny files will be on one drive, but you can try Recuva (which worked for me literally minutes ago for a regular HDD)

Linus posted a video a few months back about recovering data on his failed raid array, he used some company that actually manged to do it.

 

EDIT: The video

 

[migeo]

1 minute ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Since the data is 'stripped' across drives, I believe only tiny files will be on one drive, but you can try Recuva (which worked for me literally minutes ago for a regular HDD)

Linus posted a video a few months back about recovering data on his failed raid array, he used some company that actually manged to do it.

I have a very small file that's actually THE most important file. It contains all of my usernames and such for my university appplications. Since it was on notepad, do you think I might have a chance to recover this file or you honestly don't know? Oh and by the way I already thought about the company because of Linus' video but I don't know how much they will charge so I was a bit hesitant. Either way thank you!

[HPWebcamAble]

2 minutes ago, migeo said:

Since it was on notepad, do you think I might have a chance to recover this file or you honestly don't know?

If I had to guess, I'd say no. But I've never tried searching a RAID 0 with a file recovery program.

 

In any case, good luck!

[othertomperson]

Why would you store important data on a Raid 0 array unless you backed it up very regularly? There is literally nothing that I cannot very easily retrieve from Steam or elsewhere on my JBOD, which is the only reason I am comfortable using a JBOD for my C drive.

[migeo]

1 minute ago, othertomperson said:

Why would you store important data on a Raid 0 array unless you backed it up very regularly? There is literally nothing that I cannot very easily retrieve from Steam or elsewhere on my JBOD, which is the only reason I am comfortable using a JBOD for my C drive.

Because I'm really dumb and although I do actually back up my important files, docs etc, I completely forgot to back up this file that was on my desktop. I hate myself right now

[migeo]

24 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

If I had to guess, I'd say no. But I've never tried searching a RAID 0 with a file recovery program.

 

In any case, good luck!

yeaaa, the program just finished its thing but it didn't recover anything from the raid array. so I'm fucked

[CtrlAltELITE]

Out of curiosity why do you run a 6TB raid 0 whilst having 650gb of SSD storage? Surely 650gb is enough for ~90% of your games & OS. Raid 0 for document storage is somewhat pointless unless you very frequently need to access very large files (like RAW footage editing)

[migeo]

On 4/6/2016 at 11:31 PM, CtrlAltELITE said:

Out of curiosity why do you run a 6TB raid 0 whilst having 650gb of SSD storage? Surely 650gb is enough for ~90% of your games & OS. Raid 0 for document storage is somewhat pointless unless you very frequently need to access very large files (like RAW footage editing)

I have (had) just under 1 tb of games, over 1.2 tb of vids and pictures, over 1 tb of anime (yeah I separated animes from my other vids). Os is on samsung ssd as well as a bunch of important apps like chrome word, adobe audition, vegas pro 12, etc. I used my other ssd to copy and paste the games that I'm currently playing (that are from thepirate bay) and that's where I installed my steam library games. I know it might sound stupid to copy and paste the games on ssd while playing but I often record gameplay with fraps. Having an ssd is great for this. I then re-copy and paste the game back to my games folder once I finished recording the campaign for bf4 for exemple. That's how I use this ssd. I didn't think twice about buying my intel ssd because it was being sold for 140$ (canadian) on ncix. That's worth it imo. I honestly didn't think I would ever ue that much data, but when my parents bought me 2 3tb hdd for christmas because they knew I was saving up to build my own pc, I didn't think twice about having a raid 0 array. usually wd drives are some of the best. I think as well that it's amd's fault that I had a bsod because I updated my gpu drivers the same day and had a lot of errors saying that the display drivers stopped working. After multiple notifications of the sort, I had a bsod. I'm actually blaming amd on this one.