About the dead array is the hard drive dead? Ether way you need to do data recovery on each disk on a second computer. Their several programs for this one I have used is File Scavenger 3 it will do raids not all programs will. Hope this helps, also for the couple hundred gigs of data try http://www.streamload.com they have unlimited data storage and you pay for monthly download banwith like 25 Gb per month for $10.