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The original was posted on /r/storage by /u/Dangerous-Layer-1024 on 2023-06-27 20:41:14+00:00.

I had 12TB of replaceable data in a Windows 11 storage space. I woke up one morning and my drive was RAW. Luckily, I had *just* backed up my non-replaceable documents the night before, but I found them all to be *.zipx files.

Obviously I was hit with ransomware, but why did my storage space fail? While researching the failure, I read that as software RAID, it could mark a drive as unusable after only a few ms of no communication!

I assume the ransomware started to try and encrypt the storage space, and the IO of such caused the RAID to fail. Would this be a fair assumption?