With over 25 years of RAID data recovery expertise, Coventry Data Recovery is the trusted name in recovering data from RAID 0 arrays, from critical enterprise servers to personal NAS systems. We have successfully completed recoveries for small businesses, multinational corporations, and government departments alike.
RAID 0 Data Recovery Services
RAID 0 (striped) arrays offer high performance but no fault tolerance. When one disk in the array fails, all data becomes inaccessible. Our engineers specialise in RAID 0 recovery scenarios, including catastrophic hardware failures, accidental reinitialisation, and firmware-related corruption.
We Recover Data From:
- 2-disk to 32-disk RAID 0 configurations
- Hardware-based RAID 0 arrays (RAID controllers)
- Software-based RAID (e.g. Windows Storage Spaces, Linux MDADM)
- NAS systems configured in RAID 0
- Rack-mounted RAID 0 server arrays
Supported RAID 0 Brands
We provide RAID 0 recovery from all major vendors including:
- Dell EMC
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
- Synology
- QNAP
- NetApp
- Seagate
- Western Digital (WD)
- Drobo
- Lenovo
- Intel
- ASUS
- Promise Technology
- IBM
- LaCie
- Adaptec by Microchip
- Areca
- Thecus
Most Common RAID 0 Failures & Recovery Process
1. Single or Multiple Drive Failure
Issue: As RAID 0 has no redundancy, failure of one disk results in complete array failure.
Recovery: Clone each drive sector-by-sector, repair weak sectors, and virtually reconstruct the RAID using custom stripe configurations.
2. RAID Controller Failure
Issue: Corruption in RAID controller configuration or physical failure.
Recovery: Analyse controller metadata or manual reconstruction via parameters like block size, offset, and disk order.
3. Incorrect Disk Reordering
Issue: Disks inserted into the array in the wrong order.
Recovery: Use entropy and stripe pattern analysis to determine correct disk order.
4. Accidental Reinitialisation or Reformat
Issue: RAID has been reinitialised during troubleshooting.
Recovery: Use forensic tools to detect pre-initialisation metadata and rebuild using low-level disk imaging.
5. Firmware Corruption
Issue: Drives have mismatched or corrupt firmware affecting accessibility.
Recovery: Repair firmware via donor firmware modules, then image each disk.
6. Bad Sectors or Read Instability
Issue: RAID reads extremely slowly or halts due to media degradation.
Recovery: Clone disks using controlled hardware imagers with retries, and extract accessible data post-reconstruction.
7. Power Surge or Electrical Failure
Issue: Sudden loss of power can corrupt array metadata or damage PCB.
Recovery: Assess each drive in a controlled lab environment, repair PCBs or replace ROMs, then reconstruct array.
Top 20 RAID 0 Recovery Errors
- Single disk failure
- Disk head crash
- PCB electrical failure
- Disk not recognised by BIOS
- RAID controller not detecting array
- Array not mounting
- Disk(s) report as uninitialised
- Missing partition table
- File system shows as RAW
- Overwritten metadata
- Media read errors
- Firmware mismatch
- Rebuild failure
- RAID showing degraded without rebuild option
- Disks incorrectly ordered
- Replaced drive wasn’t identical
- File corruption due to striping error
- Encrypted RAID 0 failure
- RAID 0 showing as JBOD
- RAID 0 array converted to RAID 1/5 by mistake
Top 15 Selling RAID-Enabled NAS Brands in the UK
- Synology (e.g. DS920+, DS218+)
- QNAP (e.g. TS-451D2, TS-673A)
- Western Digital My Cloud EX2 Ultra
- Seagate IronWolf NAS
- Buffalo TeraStation
- Netgear ReadyNAS
- TerraMaster F2/F4 series
- Asustor Lockerstor
- LaCie 2big RAID
- Drobo 5N2
- Promise Pegasus
- Lenovo Iomega ix2
- Thecus N5550
- Intel SS4000-E
- ZyXEL NAS540
Top 15 RAID Rack Server Brands in the UK
- Dell PowerEdge R740
- HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
- Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650
- IBM System x3650 M4
- Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M5
- Supermicro SuperServer
- Intel Server System R1208
- ASUS RS720-E9-RS24
- QNAP TS-h1277XU-RP
- Synology SA3600
- NetApp FAS2700 Series
- Promise VTrak E5000
- Thecus N16000PRO
- LaCie 12big Rack
- Huawei FusionServer Pro
Top 10 Virtual RAID 0 Failures and Our Recovery Approach
- Virtual RAID misconfiguration – Manually rebuild via parameters
- Hypervisor corruption – Extract VMDK/VHDX files, mount externally
- Snapshots interfering with rebuild – Rollback and export from shadow
- Storage Pool failure – Decompose pool, extract constituent volumes
- Thin provisioning data loss – Parse LUNs and rebuild mapping table
- iSCSI corruption – Recover target and reassemble LUNs
- Failed software RAID in VM – Mount in forensic virtual environment
- Backup VMs overwritten – Use data carving for partial content
- Hybrid RAID + tiered cache – Separate SSD cache from HDD storage
- BitLocker encrypted VM volumes – Key analysis or bypass (with consent)
Why Choose Coventry Data Recovery?
- 25+ years of RAID recovery experience
- UK’s trusted name for complex RAID 0 recoveries
- In-house cleanroom for mechanical repairs
- Advanced virtual reconstruction & forensic recovery tools
- Transparent diagnostics and full sector-level recovery process
- Critical 48-hour turnaround service available
Supported File Systems
- NTFS, exFAT, FAT32
- EXT2/EXT3/EXT4
- HFS+, APFS (macOS)
- Btrfs, ZFS, XFS
- ReFS, UFS