Parity & Data disk failure

[lovswr]

unRAID server 6.4.0 (edit)

 

 

Hello, I had a catastrophic motherboard failure.  In the process my Parity disk & one of my data disks (of 6) now no longer even spin up.  Other than buying two more drives & completely starting over, is there any hope of recovering any data from the remaining 5 data drives?

[JorgeB]

There should be no problem recovering data from the other drives, just do a new config, assign them all as data disks with or without a new parity disk.

[lovswr]

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

There should be no problem recovering data from the other drives, just do a new config, assign them all as data disks with or without a new parity disk.

Will the shares come back as well, or do I have to rebuild them?

[JorgeB]

Shares will be back, they are all the top folders, if you're using the old flash drive the share settings will be kept, if a new one you'll need to reconfig split level, allocation method, etc.

[lovswr]

22 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Shares will be back, they are all the top folders, if you're using the old flash drive the share settings will be kept, if a new one you'll need to reconfig split level, allocation method, etc.

Thanks for the info johnnie, just one more question, should I use the reset function or start anew as if I never had an unRAID server before?

[JorgeB]

As you prefer, it's the same for the data, difference is if settings are kept or not, use what's more convenient.

[JonathanM]

4 hours ago, lovswr said:

In the process my Parity disk & one of my data disks (of 6) now no longer even spin up.

If the data on that data disk is important to you but you think data recovery is not worth it, the cost to recover may be less than you are anticipating.