LaCie 2big RAID Data Recovery

Zero Alpha offers professional data recovery for LaCie 2big. The LaCie 2big is a dual-bay external storage system commonly used for backups and creative workflows, often configured in RAID. Failures can occur due to drive faults, RAID corruption, power supply damage, or accidental reconfiguration, resulting in inaccessible volumes and missing data. We accept mail in jobs from Australia and worldwide.

lacie 2big raid data recovery

Types of LaCie 2Big Data Recovery problems

  • RAID Controller Failure: Corruption or malfunction in the RAID controller, causing loss of access to the RAID configuration.
  • Drive Degradation: Gradual wear and tear leading to bad sectors, read/write errors, and drive failure.
  • Physical Damage: Head crashes, platter scratches, or motor failure due to drops, impacts, or overheating.
  • Firmware Corruption: Firmware issues causing the drives to not be detected or initialized by the system.
  • RAID Rebuild Errors: Errors during rebuilds or accidental reconfiguration can overwrite existing data.
  • Accidental Formatting: The RAID volume may be formatted or reinitialized by mistake, leading to data loss.
  • Power Surges: Electrical issues or sudden power loss can damage the drives or RAID controller.
  • Drive Desynchronization: Drives falling out of sync within the RAID array, often due to differences in read/write performance.
  • File System Corruption: Corruption of the file system, often due to improper disconnection or software crashes.
  • Multiple Drive Failures: Both drives failing simultaneously, leading to complete RAID failure and potential data loss.

Lacie 2Big data recovery Case Log

lacie 2big usb3 tbt2 data recovery

29Jun23: 2 Seagate Drives ST3000DM007-2U910G. Drive 1 was ok but Drive 2 was clicking. A Backup of the good drive was made. Used good parts in bad drive. Drives are striped. Thunderbolt series uses Apple raid with no offset. Apple reverses physical order every 4096 logical using 4096 bytes per physical sector hard drives. Lacie TBT2 uses HFS+ and default label is LaCie

lacie 2big raid parameters showing sector 0 starting drive in hex

You can find the physical drive order by examing the GPT structure. On a 4k drive this information will be in sector 0. This can obviously be Sector 1 on a 512 Drive.

LACIE 2Big LED error 16TB Data Recovery Caselog

18Nov24: This lacie 2big has two seagate iron wolf pro 8tb hard drives inside. Both of them were reporting bad sectors and errors causing the lacie 2big unit to stop detecting. The led blinking on the front was not correct and data could not be accessed. We were able to recover the data using the raid mirror system.

LACIE 2Big 36TB Data Recovery Caselog

24Feb26: This lacie 2big has two seagate iron wolf pro 16tb hard drives inside. Rebuilt raid and recovered data.Â