RAID Recovery

Tom's Hardware Guide: The Data Knight Kroll Ontrack To The Rescue! "RAID data configuration is almost always proprietary, since all RAID manufacturers set up the internals of their arrays in different ways. However, they do not disclose this information, so recovering from a RAID array failure requires years of experience. Where does one find parity bits of a RAID 5, before or after the payload? Will the arrangement of data and parity stay the same or will it cycle? This knowledge is what you are paying for." I didn't know that configuration was proprietary. A good guide to saving your precious data files on hard disks that always fail on you at the worst time. Backup! Backup! and Backup!