Word.
So first off - Picking up some new drives, WD Blue, same as one of the drives that failed. I'm not expecting it, but if it's the same PCB board, I'm gonna see if swapping the boards will let me run that failed WD drive. IF I can get that to run, even slowly, then I've got only 2 actually dead drives, and I can rebuild the array, then swap the WD with the good one, and rebuild again.
Reality - I probably won't be able to save the drives myself - and any more advanced HDD recovery requires removing BIOS chips from the PCB boards and other stuff that I know I'm not capable of.
SO - I'm guessing I can send them off to someone who can recover the data. So I see the 3 following scenarios, which is the most realistic/practical?
A) Leave the server off until the data is recovered - if I do this and each drive has it's data moved to a new 4TB drive, can I implement the new drives without screwing up the array? I feel like that's where I do the New Profile configuration method.
B) I'm impatient and want to just keep using the server without the data from those drives while the data gets recovered - can a data recovery service take the data off a disk formatted for an unraid array, and deliver it to me in such a format that I can read through it, and select files to put back on to the server?
C) options I'm not considering?