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Encryption for raid drives
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My Dell Dimension 9200 (from 1997) had a disk crash a few months ago and had to be replaced. The computer had two drives that were raided together.
A technician is trying to recover my data files. He cannot access the drive with the operating system but can see the files on the other drive. However, he says the files are encrypted so he can't access them.
I never encrypted any files so presumably this encryption is part of the process Dell used when setting up the raid. Does anyone know what encryption Dell might have used in those days? Microsoft encryption?
Any ideas? Thanks
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October 1st, 2015 11:00
RAID 5 needs a minimum of 3 drives. If one dies its critical if 2 die its dead.
RAID 0 is striping. If one drive dies the entire array is dead.
RAID 1 is mirroring where an exact copy is on one drive and the other.
You have a Raid 0 with 1 dead drive.
All your data is gone forever.
There is no Raid Encryption based on Onboard INTEL ICH.
Encrypted Raid is not standard even on systems with a separate Raid controller card.