Network Attached Storage (NAS Drive) Recovery

Most businesses and home users are now turning to NAS devices for storage of their data. The advantage of this type of device is that you can have increased storage spanned over several drives at once meaning large capacity of data storage also accessibility on multiple computers, tablets and smart phones within your network.

There are several types of configuration for setting up a NAS storage device the most common are

• RAID 0 – usually used for speed of access to the data, no redundancy if one drive fails you don’t get access.

• RAID 1 – used for disaster prevention, you lose some capacity but have mirrored data so if one drive fails you still have access to your data, if two or more drives fail you cannot access the data.

• RAID 5 – typically used within business networks and servers this configuration combines speed of access and redundancy within the array.

All of these configurations are prone to failure, listed are some of the issues we have recovered data from:

• Multiple disk failure
• Corrupt device firmware
• Failed firmware upgrade attempt
• Device failure, usually the motherboard
• Electronic failure of the device

Kingdom Data Recovery can recover data from all types of NAS drives, RAID configuration and file types, in some cases we can rebuild the array and allow the device to continue to be used with no data loss at all.