I know how RAID work and prevent data lost from disks failures. I want to know is possible way/how easy to recover data from unfunctioned remaining RAID disks due to RAID controller failure or whole system failure. Can I even simply attach one of the RAID 1 disk to the desktop system and read as simple as USB disk? I know getting data from the other RAID types won’t be that simple but is there a way without building the whole RAID system again. Thanks.

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

    If you’re doing it from scratch, I’d recommend starting with a filesystem that has parity checks and filesystem scrubs built in: eg BTRFS or ZFS.

    The benefit of something like BRTFS is that you can always add disks down the line and turn it into a RAID cluster with a couple commands.

    • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Yeah, it’s been a long time since I’ve looked at and kind of RAID/Storage/data preservation stuff… like 256GB spinning platters were the “hot new thing” last time I did.

      I’m starting from scratch…in more ways than one lol