September 13, 20232 yr I am thinking on embarking on unraid as a home office data storage nas solution. I was wandering what would happen if usb gets lost or damaged? Are the hard drive disk not able to be read by another software to recover data from it? Thank you
September 13, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution Unraid uses standard Linux file systems, so the drives can always be read there outside Unraid if needed. Each array drive is a self-contained file system and can be read by itself.
September 13, 20232 yr Author Thanks that helps me. so if for some reason the unraid drive cant be used I can access through separate linux software. Much appreciated.
September 13, 20232 yr Community Expert On 9/13/2023 at 7:13 PM, ashkasto said: Thanks that helps me. so if for some reason the unraid drive cant be used I can access through separate linux software. Much appreciated. Yes. If necessary a Linux ‘live’ distribution can be temporarily used by booting it off a flash drive without needing to do a full install,. There are also tools for Windows and Mac systems for reading Linux file systems even those do not support them natively.
September 20, 20232 yr Windows WSL comes to mind. Nifty feature that windows now supports. If you have a USB drive case pop it in and use windows WSL to read the drive.
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