Case Studies & Success Stories

Real RAID, NAS and server data recovery cases handled by ACE RAID Recovery engineers — from a 28TB EqualLogic SAN to an Intel Optane hybrid laptop. No data, no fee.

Original ACE cases

Virtual Machine Data Recovered Remotely for a Center for the Arts

The problem A major Performing Arts Center in the Midwest ran a multi-terabyte SAN with several LUNs. One of their LUNs held a VMware environment: a …

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100% Data Recovery From a "Unhealthy" Dell EqualLogic Array

The problem A large medical data processing center in Michigan ran a Dell EqualLogic 5000 system with 28TB of storage - a RAID 5 configuration of …

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100% of Patient Data Delivered in Less Than 24 Hours

The problem A medical center in Chicago, IL ran a multi-terabyte SAN with more than 50 LUNs. When they called us, the NTFS volumes on 5 …

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Enterprise RAID & storage cases

Publisher's RAID 5 Back Online in 6 Days

The problem A newspaper publisher in Los Angeles, CA suffered a power outage that disabled two Seagate SAS hard drives in a Dell PowerEdge R710 server …

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100% Recovery From an HP MSA2000 After a Wrong RAID Rebuild

The problem One of the largest online marketing services providers - holding sales contact data for more than 1,500 businesses - called ACE after numerous unsuccessful …

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RAID Array With Hyper-V Recovered After Another Company Failed

The problem KI Systems, a company in Washington state, had their business on the line. On the advice of Dell, they had sent their RAID array …

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Architecture Studio's EonNAS ZFS Server Recovered After a Competitor Said "Impossible"

The problem In October 2018, an international architecture studio in San Francisco suffered a catastrophic failure of their EonNAS 3016RT1 server. The server held three decades …

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97% of Photos & Videos Recovered From a Drobo BeyondRAID

The problem Lisa from Utah contacted ACE RAID Recovery for help with her Drobo DR04D-U. The device had been stuck in an endless self-recovery cycle for …

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