The drive In RAID 5, I am not sure if hot plugging the drive into another server will preserve its data, fire it, or not work at all.
Any comments will be helpful.
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We currently have 9 machines. One of them has an electrical failure The circuit board is fried, but the drive seems to be ok. I’m not entirely sure that I will even try to recover data from it.
The drive is in RAID 5, and I’m not sure if hot plugging the drive into another server will preserve its data, fry Drop it, or it doesn’t work at all.
Any comments will be helpful.
Before trying anything, I The drive will be inserted into a non-RAID controller and dumped byte by byte (via dd, for example) onto other storage. Then you can do whatever you want-you have a backup.
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