First, the background story...
Our well-aged hardware RAID tower died on us recently. After much testing and trials to get it running again, we pretty much resigned ourselves that it was gone. This is a very old RAID enclosure that is no longer produced or serviced. We believe the drives and data are still good, that the RAID enclosure internals went bad.
We replaced the entire system with a new Mac Mini Server and Pegasus TB RAID. We did have a Drobo Pro backup running for the old RAID but have since discovered holes in the data, meaning Drobo Copy wasn't doing it's job. So I had a thought before I junk the old hardware.
My questions are:
Is there a way to get the data off each drive (pulled from enclosure) and rebuild onto a single large drive? My thought being, there are 8 drives (250GB each) in RAID 5. Could I clone each drive to it's own partition in the same order and is there software that would recognize/rebuild it so I could do a recovery?
Data recovery services would kill us on this one, the cost outweighs the solution. Thus, I'm looking if it's even possible and if so, what software would work? Or do you have another suggestion?
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated!
Our well-aged hardware RAID tower died on us recently. After much testing and trials to get it running again, we pretty much resigned ourselves that it was gone. This is a very old RAID enclosure that is no longer produced or serviced. We believe the drives and data are still good, that the RAID enclosure internals went bad.
We replaced the entire system with a new Mac Mini Server and Pegasus TB RAID. We did have a Drobo Pro backup running for the old RAID but have since discovered holes in the data, meaning Drobo Copy wasn't doing it's job. So I had a thought before I junk the old hardware.
My questions are:
Is there a way to get the data off each drive (pulled from enclosure) and rebuild onto a single large drive? My thought being, there are 8 drives (250GB each) in RAID 5. Could I clone each drive to it's own partition in the same order and is there software that would recognize/rebuild it so I could do a recovery?
Data recovery services would kill us on this one, the cost outweighs the solution. Thus, I'm looking if it's even possible and if so, what software would work? Or do you have another suggestion?
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated!
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