Stripped – where disks are combined in large volumes and the data is written on every dosk partially.
Mirrored – Every data item is written on every disk, that means data is duplicated on each disk
Concatenated – here data is written on one disk at a time. The performance is slower but it is stable.
Lacie Bigdisk is the most popular and trusted RAID configuration that is combined with Mac system. Lacie provides different configurations like RAID5, RAID10 that almost keep your data secure but in certain cases the data can be lost from it and you will need LaCie RAID recovery in emergency. That is because the these drives are used to store sensitive data of an office or organization and any loss of it can ruin the business. If you own it then you must be interested in what are the reasons of losing data from it and how to recover data from RAID configuration on Mac.
What Causes Data Loss from LaCie RAID on Mac
- The most probable cause is that the configuration was not properly setup.
- One or more hard drives have failed or gone offline.
- Server crash and the drives are not mounting.
- Another addition of the hard drive was not compatible.
- Virus attack or any type of hacking activity.
- The database has been corrupted.
If the data is lost because of the hardware or the software you must first call your network administrator who can tell you what the real problem is. If the problem is fixed then you are saved from any further problem. Now you don't need his service anymore as the data can be restored by the backup of yours. But if the backup is not available then don't worry because it can be restored using LaCie RAID recovery software for Mac that fully supports recovery from different RAID configuration. You can choose the hard drive from where the data has been lost and the software will scan it thoroughly. After that you will get the scan results in which you can select files to recover. The recover process is so simple that you don't need any professional to operate it. Just download the software and Restore LaCie RAID data on Mac with ease.