topic Re: Recover data from SAS disk drive in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Recover data from SAS disk drive

DNash — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:41:19 GMT

New customer has a fried Prolient (Ml350 G5) with 2 DF072A9844 SAS disks. We want to remove the disks and recover as much data as we can. Can I connect one of the drives to an inexpensive SAS controller (Promise, HighPoint or such) just to access the data only and copy to another drive?

Re: Recover data from SAS disk drive

Alex Geroulaitis — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:15:10 GMT

Yes if the drives were stand-alone or a part of RAID1 set.

Re: Recover data from SAS disk drive

DNash — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:18:01 GMT

Yes that worked! Thank You!

I bought an inexpensive Highpoint 2642 SA/SATA controller and used the enclosed cables to connect both drives to a Windows 7 machine. The drives must have been RAID 1 since data looked the same on each drive. I was able to copy all over to a USB drive for recovery on their new server.

Re: Recover data from SAS disk drive

harmanjeet — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 09:46:32 GMT

my SA drives are RAID1 but have HP unix installation can i recover that too?.