Ok, I did something stupid.

 I am using a RAID 0 configuration using the onboard chipset of my ASUS
990FX board. It is composed of 4 HDD, 2 Samsungs and 2 WD, of 500 GB for
around 2TB total (1,81 TB usable, in fact).

This is not my booting drive, I have a 128 GB SSD for that, it is mostly
used for storage of my video library and streaming to the diverse renderers
around the house through a mixed GB wired/811.ac network.

I had a daily backing solution for the RAID array to an external 2TB disk,
as RAID 0 is known for its unreliability and proneness to disaster.

Well, with a mixture of Murphy's law and neglect from my part, I failed to
realize the backup disk had gone dead... and of course, now I am getting a
disconnection  of the RAID array almost every time I boot the computer. I
have to turn it off, wait and restart and can lightly use the computer
until the RAIDXPERT utility from AMD  shows again the array disconection
and the machine begins to malfuntion again.

I got another external disk and I am trying to copy files from the array
while it is usuable but when there has passed some time of intense rading
from it, it usually disconects leading to a ton of error messages and
crashing or freezing.

The Media Patrol utility for RAID diagnosing from AMD, usualy dies at about
15% analisys and leads to a crash.

I can get to see at some error logs that it is the unit 4 at port 1 of the
array which is failing.

After this sad story I just wanted to know if the colective wisdom in the
list has some sort of other approach to the data extraction which could
help me trying to get as much files from the array as possible before it
finally dies, as it surely will.

I know I should have not used this configuration from the beginning but
that water already passed under that bridge, I just would like to try to
see if I can recover something before changing my configuration to a better
one.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Carlos.
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