I know how RAID work and prevent data lost from disks failures. I want to know is possible way/how easy to recover data from unfunctioned remaining RAID disks due to RAID controller failure or whole system failure. Can I even simply attach one of the RAID 1 disk to the desktop system and read as simple as USB disk? I know getting data from the other RAID types won’t be that simple but is there a way without building the whole RAID system again. Thanks.

  • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lots of people have moved away from raid entirely because of some of these issues. There are alternatives these days. For example mergerfs or the ZFS file system.

    • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can confirm that moving a zfs array to a new system after a failure is simply connect the disks and zpool import -f <pool_name>

      Every raid card I use now is put in hba mode it’s just simpler to deal with

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Not to mention hardware raid is dependent on a functional card. You are in trouble if the card has problems. Also hardware raid doesn’t do data validation

        • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I feel like hardware raid is relic from the pre multi core CPU days, given that was less than 20 years ago it makes me feel old

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You are describing software raid which is the only thing really used these days. There are so many issues with hardware raid.