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[PaulW]

Just had a SCSI hdd die on me, won't spin up no more...

Most of the information was backed up, but there is still some stuff on there I need to get off it...

Anyone know or recommend any data recovery services which I can use to get the data back, and roughly how much I'm looking at??

Disc is a 20gig SCSI (68-pin)...

Cheers

[philhoward]

If the mechanics of the drive are gone, then i think its highly unlikely you can get the data back off it.  Corrupted MBRs/Partition tables are get-roundable, though.

[PaulW]

If the mechanics of the drive are gone, then i think its highly unlikely you can get the data back off it.  Corrupted MBRs/Partition tables are get-roundable, though.

I know, I'm on the hunt for a new controller board at the moment, as it looks like its that which has blown, so if that doesn't work, just wondering what companies might be best to try...

[SteveD]

These guys are ok - http://www.nationwidedatarecovery.co.uk

Expect to pay thousands though if the drive needs stripping & rebuilding to recover the data!

[SteveD]

What model & version is the drive?

[PaulW]

Seagate Cheetah ST39103LC

Bugger paying thousands  

[TheBoy]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

[PaulW]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

[TheBoy]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

If you're going to mirror under Linux (seem to recall thats all you use), the software option with most distros is gay, do it in 'hardware' (term used loosely, as most mobo implementations aren't really hardware, but you know what I mean)

[PaulW]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

If you're going to mirror under Linux (seem to recall thats all you use), the software option with most distros is gay, do it in 'hardware' (term used loosely, as most mobo implementations aren't really hardware, but you know what I mean)

It will be done via Hardware, the main SCSI controller is a LSI53C1030 which supports mirroring so will be done via that.

My laptop is RAID too, but via software raid (LVM/mdadm) works just fine!

[TheBoy]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

If you're going to mirror under Linux (seem to recall thats all you use), the software option with most distros is gay, do it in 'hardware' (term used loosely, as most mobo implementations aren't really hardware, but you know what I mean)

It will be done via Hardware, the main SCSI controller is a LSI53C1030 which supports mirroring so will be done via that.

My laptop is RAID too, but via software raid (LVM/mdadm) works just fine!

SCSI option fine, LVM, when it goes Pete Tong, you're Donald Duck'd. Also, can be a problem to get it restarted to rebuild disk with disk failure.

[PaulW]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

If you're going to mirror under Linux (seem to recall thats all you use), the software option with most distros is gay, do it in 'hardware' (term used loosely, as most mobo implementations aren't really hardware, but you know what I mean)

It will be done via Hardware, the main SCSI controller is a LSI53C1030 which supports mirroring so will be done via that.

My laptop is RAID too, but via software raid (LVM/mdadm) works just fine!

SCSI option fine, LVM, when it goes Pete Tong, you're Donald Duck'd. Also, can be a problem to get it restarted to rebuild disk with disk failure.

I've successfully rebuilt broken arrays before via software, quite straight forward really!

[TheBoy]

No spin up is normally mechanical in my recent experience.


Last drive we sent off for data recovery due to simple drive failure was in the tens or thousands (can't remember exact ballpark, as it wasn't me signing off the PO )


I won't mention the importance of decent backups  

Thats the thing though, most is backed up, its just some random eronius configuration files which didn't carry over...

Ideally after a pair of 200+gb drives to run as a mirror...

If you're going to mirror under Linux (seem to recall thats all you use), the software option with most distros is gay, do it in 'hardware' (term used loosely, as most mobo implementations aren't really hardware, but you know what I mean)

It will be done via Hardware, the main SCSI controller is a LSI53C1030 which supports mirroring so will be done via that.

My laptop is RAID too, but via software raid (LVM/mdadm) works just fine!

SCSI option fine, LVM, when it goes Pete Tong, you're Donald Duck'd. Also, can be a problem to get it restarted to rebuild disk with disk failure.

I've successfully rebuilt broken arrays before via software, quite straight forward really!

Ah! - not that same as rebuilding an array that has broken in use due to drive failure.  'Proper' unix seems to be much better than Linux in this scenario, to the point we always use hardware based raid on Linux.  Also, generally, x86 type hardware does not lend itself too well to recovery.

[PaulW]

Ah! - not that same as rebuilding an array that has broken in use due to drive failure.  'Proper' unix seems to be much better than Linux in this scenario, to the point we always use hardware based raid on Linux.  Also, generally, x86 type hardware does not lend itself too well to recovery.

This was a mirrored array where 1 drive crashed.

[TheBoy]

Ah! - not that same as rebuilding an array that has broken in use due to drive failure.  'Proper' unix seems to be much better than Linux in this scenario, to the point we always use hardware based raid on Linux.  Also, generally, x86 type hardware does not lend itself too well to recovery.

This was a mirrored array where 1 drive crashed.

I'm guessing it wasn't the boot drive then