Connect JBOD from NAS to PC

[JelleS]

Hi,
I have 2 3TB disks that came from my NAS (Lenovo IX2) and this NAS uses LifeLine 4.0 as OS. Now i wanted to connect them to my pc, but I dont know if it will be recognized as 1 disk or if it will be recognized at all. Now the OS my NAS uses is probably Linux-based, so I wonder that if I added the drives to a Linux machine it will recognize the JBOD configuration and let me use it as 1 disk for data recovery.

I hope someone can help me, thanks in advance.

 

[Alec Mowat]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

 

[JelleS]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

Well i'm not realy sure if i should format them since i deleted some files on that NAS which i want to recover. The standard format is EXT2/EXT3.

 

[Alec Mowat]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

Well i'm not realy sure if i should format them since i deleted some files on that NAS which i want to recover. The standard format is EXT2/EXT3.

You can use a file recovery tool from Linux to pull the files, it should still be able to read them. But if it spreads the data across multiple disks for performance (which it shouldn't in a JBOD), you would be out of luck.

Short answer; it won't hurt to connect it to a Linux system, or just boot off a Linux boot CD and check.

 

[JelleS]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

Well i'm not realy sure if i should format them since i deleted some files on that NAS which i want to recover. The standard format is EXT2/EXT3.

You can use a file recovery tool from Linux to pull the files, it should still be able to read them. But if it spreads the data across multiple disks for performance (which it shouldn't in a JBOD), you would be out of luck.

Short answer; it won't hurt to connect it to a Linux system, or just boot off a Linux boot CD and check.

So will Linux recoginze both disks as 1 or both disks seperately? Sorry for not understanding you directly, my english is far from perfect.

 

[Alec Mowat]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

Well i'm not realy sure if i should format them since i deleted some files on that NAS which i want to recover. The standard format is EXT2/EXT3.

You can use a file recovery tool from Linux to pull the files, it should still be able to read them. But if it spreads the data across multiple disks for performance (which it shouldn't in a JBOD), you would be out of luck.

Short answer; it won't hurt to connect it to a Linux system, or just boot off a Linux boot CD and check.

So will Linux recoginze both disks as 1 or both disks seperately? Sorry for not understanding you directly, my english is far from perfect.

If you are recovering files, it won't matter.
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/809671-get-your-data-back-with-linux-based-data-recovery-tools

If you just want to plug it in and test, it won't hurt anything.

Just plug it in and find out, nothing will happen to the disk if it doesn't work.

 

[JelleS]

will recognize the JBOD configuration

Probably not, depending on the format of the disks (NTFS for example)

You will need to format the disks if you plan to physically remove them and attach them to a different system. The config will probably be in the OS of the Lenovo system.

Well i'm not realy sure if i should format them since i deleted some files on that NAS which i want to recover. The standard format is EXT2/EXT3.

You can use a file recovery tool from Linux to pull the files, it should still be able to read them. But if it spreads the data across multiple disks for performance (which it shouldn't in a JBOD), you would be out of luck.

Short answer; it won't hurt to connect it to a Linux system, or just boot off a Linux boot CD and check.

So will Linux recoginze both disks as 1 or both disks seperately? Sorry for not understanding you directly, my english is far from perfect.

If you are recovering files, it won't matter.
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/809671-get-your-data-back-with-linux-based-data-recovery-tools

If you just want to plug it in and test, it won't hurt anything.

Just plug it in and find out, nothing will happen to the disk if it doesn't work.

Okay i have installed Linux and i Needed Mdadm to let it see it as a JBOD araay and its working now. But since there is about 5 TB of files on it i cant directly recover it to anything, so I will have to need be able to select which folders i want to recover with some sort of program. I will also have to copy these files to a NAS in order to store them. Is this possible?, all the software you linked doesnt seem capable of doing this.

 

[Alec Mowat]

The software I linked is capable of recovering deleted files, but you should be able to just copy/paste form Ubuntu to another folder.

 

[JelleS]

The software I linked is capable of recovering deleted files, but you should be able to just copy/paste form Ubuntu to another folder.

Well the problem is that the files i want to recover are deleted, and since its EXT4 formatted testdisk and most other tools dont work.

 

[Alec Mowat]

The software I linked is capable of recovering deleted files, but you should be able to just copy/paste form Ubuntu to another folder.

Well the problem is that the files i want to recover are deleted, and since its EXT4 formatted testdisk and most other tools dont work.

Yah use one of those tools (that's what they are for) but you'll need a drive of equal size to dump it onto, if you write to the disk while you scan, you'll lose data.

 

[JelleS]

The software I linked is capable of recovering deleted files, but you should be able to just copy/paste form Ubuntu to another folder.

Well the problem is that the files i want to recover are deleted, and since its EXT4 formatted testdisk and most other tools dont work.

Yah use one of those tools (that's what they are for) but you'll need a drive of equal size to dump it onto, if you write to the disk while you scan, you'll lose data.

Well I only have another NAS that can handle that much info. So i tried to install this program: http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/ but when I try to run the program it does nothing.