Server Data Recovery
Your server is down. Your data is not gone.
Enterprise and SMB servers recovered in-house — failed arrays, corrupted volumes, dead controllers, deleted VMs. Power it down, leave it alone, and talk to an engineer before anyone else touches it.
Before anything else
The first hour matters most.
Most unrecoverable servers are made unrecoverable by well-meant rescue attempts.
- Do not rebuild the array. A forced rebuild onto a degraded set is the most common cause of total loss we see.
- Do not replace drives and re-initialise. Initialisation overwrites configuration data recovery depends on.
- Do not run repair utilities (chkdsk, fsck) on suspect volumes — they "fix" file systems by discarding what they cannot parse.
- Do power down cleanly, label drive order, and note what happened and what has been tried.
Then call us. A five-minute conversation with an engineer can be the difference between a full recovery and a permanent loss.
Capability
Every platform. Every failure mode.
RAID Arrays
All levels — 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and proprietary variants. Multiple failed members, failed rebuilds, controller loss.
Learn more →Hardware Platforms
Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, IBM, Lenovo, Supermicro, Fujitsu — and white-box builds.
Virtualisation
VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Proxmox — deleted or corrupted VMs, damaged datastores, snapshot chains.
Learn more →Databases & Applications
SQL Server, Exchange, ERP and line-of-business data validated after recovery, not just copied back.
NAS & SAN
Synology, QNAP, and enterprise SAN storage — recovered under the same laboratory process.
Learn more →Physical Failures
Failed drives from arrays rebuilt in our lab — head swaps, firmware repair, media damage. Physical and logical under one roof.
Process
From failure to restored data.
- 01
Emergency triage
An engineer — not a call handler — assesses the failure with you by phone. If it is critical, the 24/7 line gets the case moving immediately.
- 02
Evaluation & fixed quote
Drives are imaged and the array structure analysed in the lab. You receive an honest recoverability assessment and a fixed quote before any recovery work.
- 03
Recovery on clones
All reconstruction happens on verified images — your original drives are never put at further risk.
- 04
Verification & return
Recovered data is verified against your priorities — databases mount, VMs boot, files open — then returned on encrypted media.
Transparent pricing
Server & array recovery pricing.
Priced by array size and drive count — covering servers, RAID, NAS and DAS. Fixed quote confirmed after diagnosis; prices exclude VAT.
All prices below are net (before VAT). We add VAT at 20% on top — shown beneath each price as “inc VAT”, which is the total you actually pay. For example, a £425 net recovery is £510 including VAT. VAT-registered businesses can usually reclaim it.
RAID, Server, NAS & DAS
| Array size | 2 drives | 3 drives | 4 drives | 5 drives |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 TB – 4 TB | £1,000£1,200 inc VAT | £1,500£1,800 inc VAT | £2,500£3,000 inc VAT | £2,900£3,480 inc VAT |
| 4 TB – 8 TB | £1,200£1,440 inc VAT | £1,800£2,160 inc VAT | £2,800£3,360 inc VAT | £3,200£3,840 inc VAT |
| 8 TB – 12 TB | £1,500£1,800 inc VAT | £2,750£3,300 inc VAT | £3,100£3,720 inc VAT | £3,800£4,560 inc VAT |
Covers RAID arrays, servers, NAS and DAS enclosures. Larger arrays and 6+ drives quoted individually.
See the full price list for turnaround options and single-drive pricing.
Questions
Asked by every IT manager.
How fast can you start?
Critical cases start immediately — the emergency line (07938 182 909) reaches an engineer 24/7 and devices can be received or collected same-day across the UK and Ireland.
Two drives failed in our RAID 5. Is it gone?
Usually not. Multi-drive failures are our standard workload: failed members are individually recovered in the lab, then the array is reconstructed from the images. What kills arrays is rebuild attempts — not the second failure itself.
Our IT provider already tried a rebuild. Is it still recoverable?
Often, yes — but stop now. Partial rebuilds overwrite data progressively, so what remains recoverable shrinks with every further attempt. Send it to the lab as-is and we will tell you honestly what is left.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes, routinely — and every case, with or without one, is handled under confidentiality and a documented chain of custody in our own laboratory.
What will it cost?
Diagnosis first, then a fixed quote based on exactly what the recovery requires — agreed with you before any work begins, so there are no open-ended bills.
Speak directly to an engineer. We will tell you what to do — and what not to do — in the next ten minutes.