Well, these are the drives that came with the product.
I feel confident enough in my skills to continue forward to recover data. I need the data right now as I am on a deadline to finish a project that was mothballed for several years but has come roaring back just this week.
The data recovery software I use most is R-Studio and there is a version called R-Linux for Windows that recovers data for the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system. I have already installed it.
Do you have experience with this and if so what additional advice can you give.
I picked up a USB to SATA cable and I am running R-Linux on windows. R-Linux finds the hard drive and the data. If I use R-Studio or any other basic windows file recovery software it will see RAID structure but not data.
I def need something to put all this data on but so far I see everything I need to recover and it is in good shape.
This reply might be a bit late, but there’s been some solutions that have been around for several years.
It’s not possible to mount the drives from the MBL Duo directly on a fresh Linux system. It’s partly because of the bizarre set-up of the partitions, which caused me a few days of grief trying to figure out why the drive refused to mount.
But a couple of things worked:
Use debugfs to access the partition - typically on /dev/sdX4.
Then use rsync to extract the entire share directory.
fuseext2 was taking way too long for me, running into several days to extract just a fraction of the 1.7TB of data I had on my RAID1 array. On the other hand, debugfs seemed to work much better, although that also took me roughly a week at a rate of 10GB/hr for the rsync.
It was such a painful experience that I might never buy a WD NAS ever again…
