[TriLUG] Drive recovery services

[Matt Whitlow]

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

You have to pull the drives out of the raid controller and run it in a
separate machine, the controller doesn't give low enough access to the
drive. Spin-rite has recoved drives for me in the past start with a level 2.
On Oct 13, 2014 10:45 AM, "Wes Garrison" <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:

> I just had 3 simultaneous failures on my ZFS pool with raidz2. (2 failures
> = OK, 3=bad.)
>
> Can anyone recommend a good drive recovery service (that's less than
> $1000).
>
> 1 of the disk developed 60,000 bad sectors in a 4 week period since the
> last time I checked it and it had 0.
>
> However, the other 2 both had 0 bad sectors and then stopped being
> accessible with no warning.
>
> This makes me believe the data is still there on these 2 drives.
>
> I think if I can get a sector-by-sector copy of one of them, I can resilver
> (rebuild) my array.
>
> What do you folks think?
>
> -Wes
>
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