A client from central London requested data recovery services for a Western Digital 1TB RAID hard drive; which comprises of 2 WD5000AAVS disks. This equipment was shipped for data recovery using the free courier collection offered by our company.
Here is the case study:
The system sent to our lab was a Western Digital MyBook 1TB RAID 0, with RAID 0 the data is split on several disks, in this case it was 2 drives at 500GB each. You need both drives working to recover the data.
Diagnosis:
The 1 drive was suffering from a PCB & electronic failure issue, this caused the drive to not become operational, so the team had to repair this to recover the data. The other disk had a large amount of bad sectors, so it was a case of imaging the one drive and then repairing the PCB issue on the other drive. The team then had to re-build the data from both data streams.
Spec of this Western Digital WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 hard disk drive:
500GB SATA Desktop hard drive x 2
Manufactured May 2008
7200RPM
Transfer rate: 3GB/s
16MB cache
What was the outcome?
The lab successfully recovered 400+ GB of music, pictures and videos from the damaged drives, the data and the client was very happy!