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Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 2:30

Hi,
I Have Lacie 4 Big Quadra with 4 x 2 TB Hitachi Drive Inside the dock.
I Used Raid 0 for the maximum data transfer.

Suddenly the drive become unallocated, and the led indicator rear show red light on the number 2 slot hard disk,

I Think the drive get bad sector and I want to clone the drive using the new hard disk.

Is that possible to clone All disk using the brand new hard disk and put it again to the Lacie enclosure
and get the data back?


And than what software that I need to clone raid drive?

I always use Acronis to clone normal drive without raid.

Thanks for your information and sorry for my english :)

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 2:35

I would use some non-windows cloning software such as ddrescue or media tools pro.

Then provided you've used a drive of the same capacity then it should work back in the LaCie box.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 2:55

pcimage wrote:I would use some non-windows cloning software such as ddrescue or media tools pro.

Then provided you've used a drive of the same capacity then it should work back in the LaCie box.


Same capacity but different brand is not big deal right?
Because is to hard get the same capacity and same brand.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 7:26

Yes, it should be OK.

Check number of LBA (sectors) is the same to be sure.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 8:44

I'm not sure that the LaCie box will bring the RAID 0 back online after a drive has been knocked offline.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 12:42

lcoughey wrote:I'm not sure that the LaCie box will bring the RAID 0 back online after a drive has been knocked offline.


sorry what do you mean with knocked offline?

Because I just want to clone the original this and than put the clone drive back to Lacie box.
The problem is the drive is have some bad sector and the Box still fine :)

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 21st, 2015, 13:26

rssxss wrote:
lcoughey wrote:I'm not sure that the LaCie box will bring the RAID 0 back online after a drive has been knocked offline.


sorry what do you mean with knocked offline?

Because I just want to clone the original this and than put the clone drive back to Lacie box.
The problem is the drive is have some bad sector and the Box still fine :)

you said the drive is marked as unallocated. Even if you clone the drive and put a perfectly healthy drive into the slot, the RAID config on the other drives are still going to register that the one drive is offline. So, the only difference you will see is that you will have a different drive in the slot, but the array will still not be accessible.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 22nd, 2015, 2:34

lcoughey wrote:
rssxss wrote:
lcoughey wrote:I'm not sure that the LaCie box will bring the RAID 0 back online after a drive has been knocked offline.


sorry what do you mean with knocked offline?

Because I just want to clone the original this and than put the clone drive back to Lacie box.
The problem is the drive is have some bad sector and the Box still fine :)

you said the drive is marked as unallocated. Even if you clone the drive and put a perfectly healthy drive into the slot, the RAID config on the other drives are still going to register that the one drive is offline. So, the only difference you will see is that you will have a different drive in the slot, but the array will still not be accessible.


Are you sure? because I never doing this before.
So if I still get unallocated drive after clone. What must I do ?

Is that possible to using mdma in linux to get my data back?
Or you have any suggestion.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 22nd, 2015, 3:07

Ideally I would have imaged the non working Disk and Reconstruct the RAID outside Enclosure with Recovery software which support RAID.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 22nd, 2015, 3:09

ROb wrote:Ideally I would have imaged the non working Disk and Reconstruct the RAID outside Enclosure with Recovery software which support RAID.


What the best software do you think for recovery raid 0 ?
so far I Just found using mdma or R-Studio.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 22nd, 2015, 8:12

rssxss wrote:Is that possible to using mdma in linux to get my data back?

Yes
rssxss wrote:Or you have any suggestion.

After you get the drives cloned, download a demo of UFSExplorer and see if you can recover your files with it. If it weren't for the major time difference, I'd offer to assist you remotely.

Re: Laci 4 Big Quadra Raid 0 Bad Sector Hard Drive

July 25th, 2015, 13:04

lcoughey wrote:
rssxss wrote:Is that possible to using mdma in linux to get my data back?

Yes
rssxss wrote:Or you have any suggestion.

After you get the drives cloned, download a demo of UFSExplorer and see if you can recover your files with it. If it weren't for the major time difference, I'd offer to assist you remotely.


Thank you very much, I already you as a friend and wait for sending you a PM.
Dont worry about time because I can follow your free time :)
Just give me info when you available.
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