Recover Data from Multiple Drives from Failed NAS

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pucknyc

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Hi,

I have 4 good hard drives from a failed Buffalotech Terastation 1 NAS. Yes, it had quite a good run before I was unable to read from it. It looks like all my data was spread out across all four drives in RAID 1 format. My current setup only allows me to connect two of the hard drives at once. Is there a way to recover my data without connecting all 4 drives at once?

Thanks,
Jenny
 
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fzabkar

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RAID 1 is a mirror. That means that you would only need to find those drives which are mirror copies of each other, and then use only one drive from each mirror.

One complication may be that the Terastation may be using a Linux file system, so you may need a tool such a Linux Reader for Windows (freeware), or you could try booting from a Ubuntu Live CD. Otherwise, if you are a linux user, you could try mdadm software RAID to reconstruct the RAID.

A disc editor (eg DMDE freeware) might help to identify each drive.
 
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This is solid advice, but he only has 2 available drive bays/sata ports so he'll need to make images of the drives first and probably will need a pretty large destination volume to rebuild to.
 
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togo1919

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I have a DLink DNS323 NAS box, which is now a brick. It fell off a shelf onto the floor.

Inside it, my 2x 2GB Drives were in a RAID 1 configuration. I have been using this configuration for a few years at home to keep my laptop backups.

One of the Drives makes clicking sounds, so I'm not holding out much hope for it. The other is plugged-into a SATA/USB3.0 reader.

Thanks to the suggestion above, I'm using Linux Reader for Windows, and I'm recovering the files I had not backed-up as yet. (I was in the middle of a backup to my other 2TB drive when the NAS box jumped without a parachute)

I just picked up a USB 3.0 Seagate 2TB drive, which I will connect to my router, where my USB 3.0 WD 2TB drive resides. These will back up my laptop files, first and second tier backups, going forward.

The working drive which is yielding my files will get packed into a box for deep archive recovery, should there ever be a need.

By the way... I'm REALLY GLAD I saved copies of my Y and Z drive scans from SpaceMonger - they'll show what remains of my original backup and storage pruning adventure.
 
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