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by aravindcyadav

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Hi!
I am Aravind from India.
my question is:
if 2 hards were gone bad from 3, can we recover data.

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by bart777

If you lost 2 of the 3 drives from your RAID 5 array then the data is lost.

There might be 1 thing to try though. Get into the RAID controller from the BIOS and see if you can initialize the array. It may give you a warning saying that you may lose all data on the drives but at this point it doesn't really matter. If that fails then your only choice is to recover from backup. (I hope you had good backups)

Good Luck

by maniacman

If you had dual parity, you'd be safe, but since you most likely lost the parity drive in your 3 drive RAID 5 stripe, the data is lost for good. I hope you have a backup. Oh and don't initialize anything because that will surely kill any existing data on the drives, assuming anything is left to recover.

by triathlete1981

is to perform data recovery on the remaining one and make due with what you can recover. you'll be missing a good chunk of data, but hopefully, you'll be able to make some sense out of what is still there.

good luck.

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