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I had a Lacie Bigger Disk Extreme 1TB drive (4x 250GB IDE, RAID 0). I stopped using the drive several years ago, having upgraded to more modern drives. I dismantled the enclosure and kept the drives, placing them in storage and not knowing what to do with them. They have not been formatted or used in any way, as far as I can recall.
I recently had my primary external drive stolen, which unfortunately contained data not backed up anywhere. There is a chance that a portion of the missing data was once stored on the Lacie drive. That being a possibility, I would like to attempt recovery. However, I no longer have the original Lacie controller and do not currently have a replacement controller. Nor do I have enough IDE connections to run all four drives from the same machine at the same time.
Aside from sending the drives to a professional recovery service, what are my options?
Is it possible to perform a bitwise clone of each drive and reassemble the RAID configuration virtually? Is there a compatible RAID controller which I can purchase and use with these drives? Should I resort to purchasing another Lacie BDE and swapping the drives? Am I better off purchasing enclosures to connect the remaining drives to the same computer and attempting recovery that way?
I recently had my primary external drive stolen, which unfortunately contained data not backed up anywhere. There is a chance that a portion of the missing data was once stored on the Lacie drive. That being a possibility, I would like to attempt recovery. However, I no longer have the original Lacie controller and do not currently have a replacement controller. Nor do I have enough IDE connections to run all four drives from the same machine at the same time.
Aside from sending the drives to a professional recovery service, what are my options?
Is it possible to perform a bitwise clone of each drive and reassemble the RAID configuration virtually? Is there a compatible RAID controller which I can purchase and use with these drives? Should I resort to purchasing another Lacie BDE and swapping the drives? Am I better off purchasing enclosures to connect the remaining drives to the same computer and attempting recovery that way?