My External SSD crashed.

Your problem is too complicated. Call a disk data recovery service.

 

Contact LaCie and see if they can do a repair. If you don't have a backup then that's too bad (both HDD and SDD can fail, so always make a backup)

I assume they will replace it under warranty because it is only a week old.

 

Not if you don't backup unless you take the data recovery route which could cost thousands.

 

Well, maybe LaCie has some trick to recover your data. I think it is worth a try.

 

As everyone has said, there is really nothing you can do to get your stuff back. If it was that important you should have it in a cloud, and two separate drives.

I would just call them and get a replacment.

 

Without backup... Only disk recovery might get your data restored. I've never done it, because I always have multiple backups. My understanding is the cost can be astronomical.

/Jim

 

Don't give up yet... just the fact that you can "see' the Micron SSDs in the LaCie shows there's some hope.

You could try downloading the free demo version(s) of one or more of the following data recovery utilities. The demo of each will show you exactly which files the full paid version would be able to recover, before you need to pay for it:


Data Rescue

FileSalvage

VirtualLab

Just having the RAID as a RAID-0 makes this difficult. Mirrored would have been much better. But, since you can see both "slices" that means that the data should still be recoverable. I'm surprised Disk Warrior didn't help, Maybe Bootcamp is throwing it off.

Personally, I've had luck mounting unmountable volumes using Tech Tools Pro. However, it's always been on single spinning HDDs that failed with bad sectors. With that I was able to recover all data that wasn't on one of the bad sectors.

 

Data Rescue Pro worked for me before using the deep scan. Try it.

 

The only lesson you should have learned today is that drives WILL fail.

The chance of a storage medium failure is 100%.

The solution to this is BACK UP ANYTHING YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE.

It doesn't matter how much you paid for your drive, or how long other drives have been working, or how long the same drive your buddy owns has been working. It will fail, and you must plan accordingly.

There are two types of files: lost files and backed up files.

 

If the data is so important you should have more than one backup. Time Capsule is fine, but I would make at least one image backup as well. I'm not a fan of Time Capsule or Time Machine - I prefer clone backups.

I have 3 image backups of my systems, split on multiple external HDDs, and some are kept in locked cabinets.

 

Good idea!
I backup all my data with Time Machine. And I also have everything backed up to a separate HDD which I store in a different location (in the house of a friend) so I also have a backup in the case of fire or theft.

 

That's excellent news. As already mentioned, a clone backup is best.

Those RAID-0 arrays like what's in that LaCie are fine for daily usage because of how fast that configuration is, and you get the most storage area. However, as you've found out, with two separate drives in that configuration, there's two times the possibility of a failure with no fault tolerance, which can result in a complete loss of data.

So, if you're using RAID, I would suggest using RAID-1 in that situation, because then you have a mirrored array where there is a complete copy on each drive (redundant array). The disadvantage is that you would only have 1/2 the storage of RAID-0, and it's only as fast a the single drives by themselves. Yet, with SSDs through Thunderbolt, speed might not be an issue.

This is only my opinion. Your needs vs. risk may vary.

 

When I was in college in the 90s both myself and a housemate got large (for then) drives and that summer the AC failed. Since we were college students so could not afford backup drives we had to manually reconstruct the data. It was a big pain but not completely undoable since quite a bit of the stuff was on various floppies. So yeah, I feel your pain.

I have had other drive failures through the years. Fortunately those I was able to recover data from (either drive resurrection or backups) but a failure of all drives will happen at some point.

You can get a cheap one terabyte drive now (or two TB if you need it). You were lucky this time but please take this as a learning experience and buy 2 or 3 now. Use one as a time machine in an external enclosure. The other (ideally: 2 or more) do a full backup of your entire system at intervals and store elsewhere in your house or even in another building. You do not even need to buy enclosures for the full backups, you can get something from OWC that allows you to hook up a bare drive.

 

How'd you get your stuff back then??

 

Exactly, how did the OP gets his/her data back.