Seagate Exos 18TB Enterprise HDD Recovery in Kurnool, India

By Published On: September 22nd, 20251.8 min read
SSD vs HDD - Data Recovery Challenges, Seagate Desktop Hard Disk Data Recovery

Case Overview :

A 3.8-year-old Seagate Exos 18TB enterprise HDD failed in Kurnool while part of a RAID6 pool supporting 15.2TB of SQL backups, CRM datasets, and VM images across Nandyal Road, B Camp, and Srisailam Highway. The member dropped mid-scrub, degrading the array and disrupting mapped services for multiple departments. DataCare Labs initiated Seagate Exos 18TB Enterprise HDD Recovery in Kurnool using parity-aware procedures and a No Data No Charge commitment to safeguard block integrity and permissions.

  • Brand: Seagate Exos
  • Capacity: 18TB
  • Data Size: 15.2TB
  • Success Rate: 100%

Problem Description

Monitoring showed rising read timeouts and pending sectors before the drive entered click-spin cycles and vanished. Forced rebuild attempts risked parity drift across surviving members, jeopardizing clean mounts. With month-end closes and VM workloads on hold, a clone-first, assemble-later approach was essential to validate stripe order and parity before any filesystem work.

Understanding the Challenge

Enterprise RAID pools are sensitive during scrubs; head wear and firmware drift can corrupt parity if mishandled. Correct recovery replaces heads, calibrates firmware, and images sector-consistently with head map tuning, then builds a virtual RAID to verify stripes/parity ahead of extraction—preserving ACLs, timestamps, and share coherence.

Data Recovery

In a Class 100 clean-room, DataCare Labs installed matched donor heads, recalibrated adaptives, and cloned healthy bands first while logging marginal tracks for adaptive retries under thermal control. A virtual RAID6 passed stripe/parity checks. Extraction prioritized SQL dumps, VM images, and CRM stores; validation included database opens and VM boots in a test harness.

Outcome of Data Retrieval

All 15.2TB restored with permission-correct structures. Teams near Nandyal Road and B Camp resumed services quickly. DataCare Labs recommended hot spares, staggered refresh cycles, predictive SMART, and vibration/thermal controls to reduce future incidents across Kurnool sites.

Conclusion:
Degraded enterprise arrays can be recovered safely with parity discipline. Seagate Exos 18TB Enterprise HDD Recovery in Kurnool proved donor+firmware stabilization and stripe-validated imaging preserve full estates without collateral loss.

Call To Action

If a RAID member fails in Kurnool (B Camp, Nandyal Road), pause rebuilds and contact DataCare Labs for enterprise RAID recovery under the No Data No Charge Policy.

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