RAID 5 is known to be the perfect bundle of hard drives for improved performance, fault tolerance and high capacity and storage efficiency. When a drive stops working in a RAID 5 array, the failed drive can be substituted with a new drive and the data can be rebuild from the distributed parity and a healthy array can finally be achieved.

Situations wherein you face data loss in RAID 5:

• RAID 5 is good when you have single drive failure, if there is a multiple drive failure then you will face data loss due to array failure.
• The most common occurring cause is re-initialization of a RAID adaptor eventually causing failure of the RAID Array.
• Re-initialization usually takes hours and will write zeros over the entire disks resulting in permanent data loss.

If you come across any data loss situation with RAID 5, RAID Recovery software may help recover data but to perform data recovery task using any RAID data recovery software one should have proper knowledge and skills. The last chance would be is to contact RAID Recovery professionals.