Just to help you out in future, never ever have precious/important data on one drive, even if its raid. I could not sleep if I knew all my photos and work was on just 1 drive. I get paranoid if my data is in the same physical location.
Hard drives and other storage mediums fail all the time, this is not hyperbole, these devices are not designed for 100% ever. The companies work on the assumption that if they fail they will offer a replacement within warrenty, but expecting to get data recovery for free is not reasonable.
If I was you I would spend a thousand dollars on getting the data off and never making the mistake of keeping important data on 1 storage medium again. Whenever I meet someone who has all their precious data on 1 device like this I tell them that you might as well just throw all that data away now, thats how much you care about it.
Sorry if it hurts dude, just spend the money to have the platters recovered individually and never make the mistake again.
Hard drives and other storage mediums fail all the time, this is not hyperbole, these devices are not designed for 100% ever. The companies work on the assumption that if they fail they will offer a replacement within warrenty, but expecting to get data recovery for free is not reasonable.
If I was you I would spend a thousand dollars on getting the data off and never making the mistake of keeping important data on 1 storage medium again. Whenever I meet someone who has all their precious data on 1 device like this I tell them that you might as well just throw all that data away now, thats how much you care about it.
Sorry if it hurts dude, just spend the money to have the platters recovered individually and never make the mistake again.