Reading data from the individual drives with a PC SATA port

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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 / read / use the data?

How ?

I believe the data / drives are ? encrypted or encoded with a WD format

Cheers

Mike

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

Agreed?