Come to find out that the data was being stored on a stripped RAID 0 array with no mirrors behind it. Other live HDD was reconfigured into a RAID 1 array a few days after the incident. Not unrecoverable, just not needed now.
"Professionals"
The upside was that I have come to find out all the data was not necessarily mission critical, it was more of a convenience item that nobody in the company was really using any way.
/falsealarm