Volume Sets and RAIDs

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R-Studio detects and processes valid hardware volume sets and RAIDs like regular drives/volumes.

R-Studio can analyze and recover data from software volume sets and RAIDs. If a software volume set or RAID is present in your system, R-Studio detects it, and a Volume sets and RAIDs object appears on the Drives panel. This object can be searched for files, scanned, and files found on it can be recovered the same way as from normal drives/volumes.

If, due to hardware failure, a hardware volume set or RAID cannot be accessed, or due to data loss your system does not recognize a software volume set or RAID, and you know what hard drives were in it, you may create a Virtual volume set or RAID and process it like a real software volume set or RAID or hardware volume set or RAID.

You may find more information on RAID data structure in Wikipedia.

Volume Sets, Stripe Sets, and Mirrors
Basic RAID 4 and RAID 5 Operations
Working with Advanced RAID 5 Layouts
Working with RAID 6 Presets
Working with Advanced RAID 6 Layouts
Syntax of a Description File for RAID Configurations
Description Files for RAID Configurations

Creating and saving your own RAID configuration

You may create and save your own RAID configurations for non-standard RAIDs. You may specify Offset, Block order/size and Row count. See Working with Advanced RAID Layouts for details.

To save your own RAID configuration

1Select <New> in the Blocks order drop-down list
2Specify the name for the configuration on the Preset name dialog box.
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Preset name dialog box
>The new RAID configuration will be saved

The configurations are stored in the user's RAID layout file. The path and name for this file is specified on the R-Studio Settings dialog box. If no file is specified, R-Studio will ask you to enter the name.

To load your RAID configuration

*Select your configuration in the Blocks order drop-down list
>The new RAID configuration will be loaded

To edit your own RAID configuration

1Select <Edit> in the Blocks order drop-down list
2Select the required configuration on the Edit Block RAID Layout Presets dialog box.
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Edit Block RAID Layout Presets dialog box
3Edit the parameters of the configuration and save it
>The new configuration parameters will be saved.