A small office NAS near Civil Lines and Dharampeth, Nagpur, flagged a failed member and slowed access for teams working around Sadar and Sitabuldi. Shares occasionally flipped to read‑only, and the pool appeared degraded after a restart, raising concern for the remaining disk. The office asked for a simple plan that kept the healthy member safe and preserved share names. DataCare Labs outlined a mirror‑safe, step‑by‑step flow with non‑technical updates and a clean handover on new media.

• Brand: Toshiba N300
• Capacity: 16TB
• Data Size: 12TB
• Success Rate: 100%

Dashboard warnings escalated into a failed member alert; the partner disk showed increasing read delays. A forced rebuild could have copied bad sectors to the healthy disk, risking a wider outage. The team paused changes and requested member‑first handling: clean clone, virtual assembly, and tests for paths and permissions. They needed mapped paths and folder names unchanged so staff could reconnect without confusion.

With mirrors and small arrays, rushing a rebuild can push corruption into good members and reduce success later. The safer route is to stabilize mechanics, fix addressing, and capture a sector‑consistent clone of the failed disk. A virtual mirror then enables safe reads from the clone and the healthy member, preserving structures and permissions for a seamless return to normal.

DataCare Labs installed matched donor heads in a clean‑room, corrected translator settings, and imaged stable regions first using short, gentle passes. Weak tracks were revisited with cooling intervals to limit stress. With a good clone ready, engineers built a virtual mirror to access the shares. Paths and ACLs were validated on test hosts and a few sample files were opened prior to packaging.

A total of 12TB was recovered, including departmental shares, templates, and scheduled backups. Folders mounted cleanly, mapped paths stayed consistent, and permissions behaved correctly. Delivery included a simple checklist explaining layout and practical backup steps. The office resumed normal work the same day without rework or renaming.

Conclusion:
A measured, member‑safe plan protects both data and time. With careful mechanics and parity‑aware steps, DataCare Labs delivered a familiar environment ready to use, minimizing risk and making the handover easy for everyone involved.