Data Recovery from non-512
byte sector sizes (eg. 520 / 522 etc)
Data can be corrupted as it is read back to the host. Furthermore,
latent disk errors can corrupt data while it is sitting on the disk
doing nothing. EMC systems use sector-level protection (sector checksum)
to protect against these problems. Safeguards against data corruption
are embedded in every sector of Dell EMC data. When the disks are formatted,
they are divided into a series of data blocks or sectors. The standard
size for a data sector is 512 bytes, but Dell EMC products are formatted
into 520 byte sectors: 512 bytes of user data plus 8 bytes of validation
data. Part of the validation area contains a time stamp, a write stamp,
and a shed stamp that are used to ensure parity consistency. It is a
significant advantage for device users, but it makes it much more difficult
for data recovery companies to recovery the files when the RAID system
is fails.
Due the sector/block size of EMC devices, using any applications based
on Windows/Linux OS to rebuild the RAID becomes impossible. Because
of this reason, we implemented a Windows based software called ‘520
clone’ to convert the sectors back to 512 bytes from 520bytes.
The software supports ATA / SATA / SCSI / FC / SAS hard disks drives
and has three cloning / converting modes:
- 512 to 512
- 520 to 512
- 522 to 512
. It has an average cloning / converting speed of 45MB per second when
running in 520 to 512 mode. After converting the hard drives using this
application, they can be mounted under Windows / Linux OS for further
data recovery.
Above: The Dell EMC RAID servers use a non standard 520 sector size
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Specific failures on RAID systems that we can
recover data from include:
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RAID array / Controller Card Failure
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Controller Card Set-up Corruption
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RAID Container Crash
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Server won't boot
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Server registry configuration lost
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Rebuild failure
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Damaged striping
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Multiple hard disk drive failure (or multiple
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Intermittent drive failure resulting in configuration
corruption
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RAID array or volumes that won't mount after
a server crash
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Configuration damage or corruption
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Addition of incompatible drives
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Hardware conflicts
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Software corruption
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