NAS Recovery Services in the United Kingdom

This blog highlights the NAS recovery services offered by Stellar Data Recovery in the UK.

Network Attached Storage or NAS as is popularly known, are data storage devices that you can connect to, wirelessly, and access data across the network using web browsers. NAS servers are especially used in SMBs & large enterprises to meet the increasing demand for storage capacity. It also fulfils a wide variety of needs such as data sharing among multiple computers on a network. Thus, NAS advocates for improved and more efficient data usage across networks. As these devices are a type of server in itself and contain almost all the components of a typical PC, its reliability depends on its internal design. The better the design, the more will be the reliability. Also, the other factors responsible for the performance of NAS devices are speed and traffic on the network as well as RAM in the NAS servers.

NAS has gained popularity as it can share files among multiple computers. It is also because it has both data storage and file system capabilities. However, like any other storage device, these devices can suffer failure, restricting users to access the saved data. The reason being, there are several components in NAS systems like hard drives that can fail & make data inaccessible, leading to failed NAS servers. Such a situation demands NAS recovery services that can bring such corrupt NAS systems back to working condition. Before we explore the  NAS data recovery aspect, let us take a look at the probable causes for failed NAS systems.

What Causes NAS Failure?

The probable causes that lead to failure of NAS systems are as follows:

• Power Outage – NAS systems can encounter severe corruption issues due to power outage or fluctuations in the voltage. If in use the systems become vulnerable to voltage fluctuations. This prevents disks to re-integrated into the NAS systems
• Mishandling – Mishandling of the NAS systems by users is another prime cause for failure in NAS system. Mishandling can be tasks such as accidental deletion, formatting, re-formatting, reinstallation, or accidentally overwriting of data on the drives.
• Overheating – Overheating can be other reason for failed NAS systems, caused due to inadequate cooling in the server room, All these lead to system failure, thus, leading to data loss situations.
• Faulty Controllers – Faults in Controllers of the NAS systems is another significant reason for failed NAS systems. These can be a result of errors in re-organizations, rebuilds, firmware or operating system, or errors while overwriting the memory configuration, consequently leading to loss of data.
• Mechanical Faults – When NAS servers are used in a degraded state that is when one of the drives has failed, it leads to additional stress on the system and results in failure of drives. This, most often, ends with the complete failure of the NAS system.
• Natural Disasters – Fire, water damage, and other natural disasters ultimately destroy NAS systems instantly and without delay.

For above situations, professional NAS recovery services become essential so as to restore lost, accidentally deleted, formatted, or inaccessible data.