HI, Can the drives in a MBLD that are RAID be removed from the enclosure and data read independantly by connecting to a PC’s SATA cable? I ask because what happenss if the enclosure fails - the smarts on the board gets blown/corrupted etc , can you then take the ‘healthy’ drives out and recover / …

famreeks wrote: I believe the data / drives are ? encrypted or encoded with a WD format Not at all. They’re just ordinary EXT4 / MD RAID partitions. You can search online for how to mount them on a WIndows PC.

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famreeks September 29, 2014, 7:55am 3

Thanks Tony, I believe the solution is to use ubuntu desktop.

Agreed?