Raid-0 crashed

Thx.  Its two SSD SATA3 1TB each.

User didn't do any backups.

What's the alternative?

Quote "A drawback to RAID 0 is that it does not have parity. If a drive should fail, there is no redundancy and all data would be lost."

Your only hope now is a data recovery agency. I don't think non-RAID recovery tools would work.

Thanks drunton/noxcho, does it matter if it crashed on mac HFS?

RAID 0 (and 1, and 2) are sadly misnamed and should have been classified under JBOD instead.  There's nothing "redundant" about RAID until it gets to level 5.

So nothing I can even try with RAID-0 ?

@Dr. Klahn, I don't think you are right calling RAID1 as JBOD. I don't know much about RAID2, never seen it.

Would it work if I copy both drives into one and  try to recover images that way?

No.

Why not :)

Thanks drunton/noxcho, does it matter if it crashed on mac HFS?

Nope.
However it depends if it was a software RAID or a hardware RAID.

Why not :)

Because each RAID drive has its own unique ID. You could do as you say if you take images of both drives. You can now slave both drives to a Windows system and run there free RAID tool I've suggested.

We've used RunTime's RAID Constructor with great success. Though, with SSDs, if the info is seemingly lost, then the likelihood of recovery is slim to none.

We've had success with third parties and SSDs though. Keep in mind that they are very expensive. The last one, for a client whose primary laptop's SSD had crashed and had not backed up as was expected, was about $3,500US. Recovery was 100%.

Hi,

you could try this:

http://www.freeraidrecovery.com/library/raid0-recovery.aspx

Thanks.

If you try to fix the problem yourself with some utility program, it is likely you will make it difficult or impossible for a professional drive recovery company to salvage the files. The best advice is to do absolutely nothing to your external drives.

Obviously, it is very important to recover the files or you wouldn't be asking a lot of questions here. What needs to be addressed is how much money is it worth to recover the files.

I strongly recommend that you talk to at least two drive recovery companies. The calls are free. Some companies will even inspect your drives for free.

I recommend these two companies:
http://myharddrivedied.com/
https://www.gillware.com/

Two drives with RAID 0 are essentially no different from one drive  that is the size of the two drives combined. There is no magic RAID utility that will restore a corrupted file because RAID 0 itself does not make any copies of files, sectors or bytes. It just makes two drives look like one.

There are drive utilities that can be used to attempt to salvage corrupted files from disk drives and SSDs, but in the hands of an amateur they can do much more harm than good. Get some professional advice before you do anything to your drives!

By the way, the first thing a reputable drive recovery company will do is to run a professional drive copy program (one that does not alter the contents of your drives) to make an exact copy of the contents of your drives. And the first thing any computer user should do before putting anything of value on a computer is set up automated backups, both onsite and offsite. If you have just one key to your home and lose it, you'll pay a locksmith $300+ to get you into your home and make you a new key. The cost to make a copy of a backup key at a hardware stoe is $1.50 (more for better locks/keys). Backups cost less than 1/100th the cost of recovery.

A JBOD is not RAID.  A RAID is not JBOD.  JBOD units can be made into software RAID, but those are historically terrible RAID.

RAID 0 has a specific use, mainly for quicker accsess to larger storage of transient, easily recreated data, and there's really no good reason for most people to use it these days.  I was in an industry that did benefit from RAID 0 long ago, but disk space is much, much cheaper than it used to be and disk drives have much more capacity.  Recreate the RAID and run the render again.

Can you erase the disks in Disk Utitily?  Can you delete the RAID and recreate it?

@serialband - Read the author's follow-up posts:  "User didn't do any backups." The author also asks "Would it work if I copy both drives into one and  try to recover images that way?" She is trying to recover data from the drives. Erasing disks or deleting RAID won't help with that.

If you're using RAID 0 for data that needs to be recovered, then you're doing it wrong.  I described the RAID 0 use case.  Very few people benefit from a RAID 0.  It's striped data for faster access speed.  It's not a JBOD.  It's not a concatenation.  If one disk is corrupt, then the data is gone.

P.S., yes, depending on make & model of drive, there are internal logs that one can access that has a relative timestamp.  With the right software one could pretty much reconstruct actions that some well-meaning support person did and see if the drive in stress lost some more blocks.

Well, EE turned to be a championship "Who posts more comments". A pity. Quantity does not necessarily mean quality.
The author asked - "is it possible to recover the RAID0?"
And now she got a looooot of suggestions, some of them duplicated and discussions what is better, JBOD or RAID. Gents, let's come back to the track. RAID0 - is it possible to recover it? Yes. No. That's it.