July 21, 20223 yr Okay, so the situation is that 2 of my hard drives bricked during a move, but I only have a single parity drive. I was wondering if I was able to send my drives off to a data recovery service and if they are able to recover my data could I then insert new drives into my array with my old data and have it work? 99% of me knows all my data is gone but just wanted to know the possibility.
July 21, 20223 yr Community Expert Since each data drive is an independent filesystem in Unraid, any disk that has a compatible mountable filesystem on it can be used to create a new array with their data. What exactly do you mean they "bricked"? How do you know?
July 22, 20223 yr Author 5 hours ago, trurl said: Since each data drive is an independent filesystem in Unraid, any disk that has a compatible mountable filesystem on it can be used to create a new array with their data. What exactly do you mean they "bricked"? How do you know? Bricked as in neither drive powers on and spins up. But you’re saying that if I was able to recover the data on the dead drives and move them to new drives I could put the new drives into my array and it be okay?
July 22, 20223 yr Community Expert 13 hours ago, trurl said: any disk that has a compatible mountable filesystem on it can be used to create a new array with their data. "compatible" Do you know what filesystem was on the disks? Probably XFS if they were array disks created in Unraid v6. Regardless, none of the filesystems compatible with array or pools in Unraid can be read or written natively in Windows, for example. If you move or copy the files to other disks, they need to be disks already in Unraid array or pools, or disks already formatted by Unassigned Devices to be compatible. Or you can work with them as Unassigned Devices as long as they are using one of the many filesystems Unassigned Devices supports. Or copy them over the network, etc. 13 hours ago, brae10 said: 2 of my hard drives bricked during a move Was there any change of power supply involved in this? Many people have fried disks by using incompatible modular cables. Modular PSU cables have no standard pinout. It's also sometimes possible to plugin a molex connector backwards if you try hard enough, that would fry the disks also. People have sometimes recovered from this by replacing the circuit board on the drive with another of the exact same model.
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