Well, it wasn't much of a discovery, I knew that losing the RAID stripe was instant death, though I figured recovering would be easier. My RAID-0 stripe is definitely faster than the disks would be independent of each other. Since I do a lot of Vidcap and video editing stuff, disk speed was really important to me, which is why I went with RAID-0. I thought about RAID 0+1 (striping and mirroring) but that would have required 4 HD's. I also didn't think the Highpoint RAID BIOS would be so buggy as to completely trash my RAID stripe. Boy was I wrong.

I am hopeful about pgrzelak's suggestion, but I am also prepared to deal with the fact that I've probably lost all the data. It's just frustrating that all the data itself is on the disks somewhere, yet there seems to be no way to get it off there.

At least my Empeg's HD's are still in good shape (knocking on wood.)

-Tony
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