If you have ever faced the loss of data, you will know what it’s like to have anxiety over severe trouble with your server, hard disk or RAID health. This is however, a time for some caution in terms of time and money. Data recovery can sometimes be worked out yourself, with help of software and some simple tips. This is usually the case when the drives are not physically damaged. If they are damaged however, you will need to send the drives to a specialist who will recover the data for you. Here you need to decide the optimality, as the costs of data recovered needs to be balanced with the cost of data involved. If the lost data is not important, just take a lesson from this failure; replace the faulty drives, and start backing up. There should be adequate drive space and a schedule, so that you regularly create copies of your data.

There is no foolproof method where you will have 100% of your data recovered or will never have a crash. However, as they say, prevention is better than cure. Backing up is the prevention method when it comes to computer data. Data loss If you suspect any data corruption, drive corruption, or data loss, the possible symptoms will be: Error messages informing you that the device is not recognized. Previously accessible data is suddenly nowhere to be seen. Scraping or rattling sound in the drives, especially hard disks. Hard drive may not spin and may be still. Computer or hard drive does not function at all, like no booting is possible. All of these indicate that the drive is corrupted. 44% of data losses are due to drive malfunction.