I am running vmware 6.5 on HP DL360p Gen 8 server.
I have Raid 5 configuration for 10 of 1.8TB Sas 10k drives.
During the power outage 2 out of 10 drives were affected displaying status: Degraded, (predictive failure)
I got two new drives to replace them and started rebuilding process by changing one of the affected drives.
During the rebuilt process other affected drive has failed.
I have now 2 drives affected and Logical drive showing status: Failed.
we have back up but the loss is still significant. This is not mission critical server and we can take our time if needed.
Is using 3rd party data recovery service to recover one of the drives and then rebuilt array is plausible?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.