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.

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    20 days ago

    Why wouldn’t you? It is the most flexible out if all of them.

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      20 days ago

      In my experience, using spinning disks, the performance is very poor, and times for scrub and resilver are very long. For example, in a raidz1 with 4x8TB, scrubbing takes 2-3 weeks and resilvering takes almost 2 months. I must also add very poor performance in degraded state. This is a very old post, but things are still the same.

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        19 days ago

        You must have shingled/SMR drives. They do not work well with any type of raid array.

        My array of 7x12TB drives resilvers in a few hours, as I made sure I got CMR drives