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IS NOT RAID 0.
Alright I bought this hardrive 2 years ago, inside is 2 500gb drives made to look like 1tb. one of the drives failed. Everywhere I looked said it was RAID 0, people were assuming this because of the setup. After numerous failed attempts at getting my data with raid reconstructor from runtime.org (I would advise this software for an actual RAID 0 array) I did a little more reseacrh and found a post in the futureshop forums from someone with the same problem but he found out that IT IS NOT A RAID 0 SETUP. it is actually setup in concatenation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standar...ion_.28SPAN.29
This means raid reconstructor is useless. The same guy suggested R-Studio which can rebuild the volume set. My cousin has a copy and he's letting me use it right now. It works.
The software is very expensive ($900) but there may be other cheaper software available for others.
I am posting this everywhere I can because I saw a lot of posts with the exact same problem I had and they had lost all of their data and were failing to recover it because they think it is RAID 0, so hopefully I can help at least one person somewhere with the same problem. There is also a 2tb version out there setup the same way.
Alright I bought this hardrive 2 years ago, inside is 2 500gb drives made to look like 1tb. one of the drives failed. Everywhere I looked said it was RAID 0, people were assuming this because of the setup. After numerous failed attempts at getting my data with raid reconstructor from runtime.org (I would advise this software for an actual RAID 0 array) I did a little more reseacrh and found a post in the futureshop forums from someone with the same problem but he found out that IT IS NOT A RAID 0 SETUP. it is actually setup in concatenation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standar...ion_.28SPAN.29
This means raid reconstructor is useless. The same guy suggested R-Studio which can rebuild the volume set. My cousin has a copy and he's letting me use it right now. It works.
The software is very expensive ($900) but there may be other cheaper software available for others.
I am posting this everywhere I can because I saw a lot of posts with the exact same problem I had and they had lost all of their data and were failing to recover it because they think it is RAID 0, so hopefully I can help at least one person somewhere with the same problem. There is also a 2tb version out there setup the same way.