I have an old unraid server 4.4.2 that died. it looks like a hardware issue where half the drive show offline i'm thinking it's a controller error. this box is about 7 years old and I'm not really interested in resurrecting it. I would rather just build a new server with new hardware. if i do that whats the best way to get data off the old drives? can i just mount them on the new server and then copy data over again the old server is dead so i cant just copy it over the network. besides i may end up reusing some of the hardware like the case and power supply for the new server 

 

p.s. any suggestions on replacement hardware would be welcome. if i build a new box I may end up moving my plex server to it what king of horse power am i going to need for that 

Once you get your new unraid server up and running, you can use this plugin to mount the old HDDs and copy any data you want. Assuming you don't reuse the old HDDs in the new server before you get the data off. Also assuming the HDDs aren't corrupt either.

https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/44104-unassigned-devices-managing-disk-drives-outside-of-the-unraid-array/

So summing up....
build new server with at least a couple of brand new HDDs, mount old disk using plugin and copy data off.

Hope this gets you going in the right direction.

Best of luck.


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1 minute ago, BillClinton said:

build new server with at least a couple of brand new HDDs, mount old disk using plugin and copy data off.

Or, depending on drive count and capacity, set up new server with all the old hard drives in the array just as they were to get things copied while still maintaining parity protection, mount a new 8TB as a cache drive temporarily, and copy everything that way.

 

How many drives, what capacity, how much used space, so many questions not addressed in OP.

 

A more accurate picture of the hardware as it exist right now would be very beneficial to help formulate options for moving forward without data loss.