moving hdd from nas to pc

[anferne85]

Hi,

Does anyone know what happens if I plug individual nas drives into sata ports on my mobo ? Would the data appear just like any other hdd in my computer ? Its coming out of a 4 drive nas. 4x2tb.

 

[TType85]

I would venture to say no, not individually. Unless they were 4 separate JBOD's or RAID1 in a format that your computer can read. What type of NAS is it? I know Synology NAS's you can take all 4 out and boot with a linux distro and get to the data.

EDIT: All 4 at one time may work.

 

[drescherjm]

I would say it may be possible if you are running linux since a lot of nas devices are linux. If you are running raid (other than raid1) you will need more than 1 drive.

 

[SirMaster]

Most NAS devices use standard Linux MD RAID and can be mounted in a normal PC. But probably they need to be all together.

 

[anferne85]

Hey, the model is a 'wd sharespace' 4tb. using 'raid 5' i believe > this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHlxheybI9A

so do you think the drives will detect in a windows 8 pc installed on 4 sata ports.

 

[dbwillis]

I wouldnt bet on it working without alot of fiddling

 

[drescherjm]

so do you think the drives will detect in a windows 8 pc installed on 4 sata ports.

Windows most likely not. Since the NAS will most likely be using a linux filesystem like ext3/ext4. Now if you boot into linux you have a chance.

 

[Jagger100]

Even if he booted to linux, wouldn't he have to mount at least 4 drives into his PC with his mobo RAID controller enabled (assuming it has one) that can do RAID over the 4 open sata ports?

 

[FnordMan]

Even if he booted to linux, wouldn't he have to mount at least 4 drives into his PC with his mobo RAID controller enabled (assuming it has one) that can do RAID over the 4 open sata ports?

Key words in the original post: "nas drives". Aka: I'd be very shocked to see any consumer grade NAS that doesn't use software raid given the (sometimes large) extra cost for a real raid controller.
Basically: No raid controller needed, just any 4 sata ports and something compatible. (assuming the original NAS was just using linux soft raid)

 

[Jagger100]

Key words in the original post: "nas drives". Aka: I'd be very shocked to see any consumer grade NAS that doesn't use software raid given the (sometimes large) extra cost for a real raid controller.
Basically: No raid controller needed, just any 4 sata ports and something compatible. (assuming the original NAS was just using linux soft raid)

Depends on the meaning of software raid.

ZFS exists entirely in software. I have a mobo with a raid option that is incomplete and requires drivers in my OS to give me the full RAID funcitonality. I've heard both called software RAID. The example of my mobo which uses drivers still requires hardware side of it. I can't just arbitrarily pop in those drivers in any mobo and have it work. I didn't think it would be likely to mimic the hardware portion in software because of the propriety nature of the hardware/diver mix.

Key word was actually "individually"

 

[drescherjm]

I have a mobo with a raid option that is incomplete and requires drivers in my OS to give me the full RAID funcitonality

Your motherboard most likely does not have hardware raid. It has a normal SATA controller with a bios that does software raid. And a driver that does the raid in the OS. The key is it does not have its own CPU, cache or BBU.

The example of my mobo which uses drivers still requires hardware side of it

Not necissarily. linux has some support for this type of raid and I believe it can remove the SATA vendor lock in.

Key word was actually "individually"

I took the OP to mean that they were using raid1 on the NAS otherwise they obviously have no chance of recovery using a single member of a raid5 or raid 10 array. Although they were not specific.