Aug 4, 2013
What happens when a drive fails on a Pegasus Promise R6 RAID?
(article from fcp.co)
Or any drive for that matter? It is my firm belief that planning ahead is the best strategy against losing important footage and files. It is best to back up all important media in external drives or even better, on LTO tape.
That said it's often expensive to do so and I'll be honest, I'm definitely guilty of failing to do this sometimes. So what happens when you need to recover files from a corrupt drive?
In this article and the above video, Phillip Johnston of HDWarrior explains how he dealt with the problem.
