external usb drive - tools available? (Filezilla like maybe?)

Hi,

I'm in the process of preparing for recovery of data from an 8 bay Synology.

What happened?

I had my 8 bay Synology standing on a shelve in the garage. While pulling through a new electricity cable, in an unfortunate incident the cable touched one of the drive bays in this way disconnecting the drive from the Synology.

Of course, also due to historical reasons while setting up, no proper back-up available.

The problem:

The correct config of the 8 disks is unknown, but I think there was a volume or pool consisting of 2 drives and another one of 6 drives, probably due to buying e.g. 2 disks to start with and then adding 6 more later on.

I found a fairly nice piece of software, DiskDrill that successfully sees and recognizes the disks and can recover the data. But as you will understand 8 x 8 TB = 64 TB of storage capacity, so I need 64 TB of "free" space before I can even start the job.

MooseFS

Then I found MooseFS. I haven't done anything with it yet, but I thinks this might be helpfull, as it allows you e.g. to have multiple machines, each with a different amount of available diskspace, and together and in conjunction with MooseFS they can then provide the sum of their diskspace to the MooseFS system. To be further explored.

USB drives:

Over the years I have built up a collection of USB drives, in the past used for Time Machine Backups and various other tasks.

I have a couple laying around with sizes varying from 8 TB to 10 TB.

Now, what I'm looking for:

• some tool or way to view disk content when a USB external drive is plugged into Unraid.

• maybe also allowing for (easy) copying over to unraid (Filezilla like maybe?)

I would like to avoid using terminal and fdisk like utilities to avoid errors.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!