Moving RAIDed drives to new system

[jameslol]

Hi,

I'm investigating purchasing a rs2212rp+.

My chief concern is what would happen if the NAS itself died, and I want to get at my data.

1. If I were to put the drives straight in to another Synology device, would it recognise them as an array, or could I add them without data loss?
2. Could the drives be put in to a normal PC to access the data? (seeing as i'm not planning to purchase more than 1 Synology device initially.

Thanks!
James

[TommyN]

When it's a RAID from another Syno you can take the disks from the old and put them in the new one in the same order without data loss. You only have to reinstall DSM.

Maybe and only maybe you will be able rebuild the RAID in a PC but nothing is certain.
I did it once with a 4 disk RAID 5 setup, where I put the disks in a PC and successfully rebuild the RAID in Linux Mint to save my data.

[jameslol]

Thanks for the reply

I am most interested in what I could do to get to my data in the short term if there is a problem with the NAS hardware itself. What is the general first option for people? I guess the biggest factor would be how quick warranty service would be.

I would be looking at moving the drives out in to a Linux box and hopefully the RAID implementation would be recognised..

[jameslol]

I've purchased a DS412+, so that I can evaluate its ability as a VMware iSCSI target, and failure scenarios, including putting the RAID in to a Linux box. If all goes well we may purchase an RS2212 or 3412 for production and use the DS412 as a backup/spare.

Really looking forward to seeing how viable this is as a cheap small business alternative to the SANs from Dell/HP/IBM

[HarryPotter]

You cant restore an iscsi target by reading the disk with a linux distribution.