OK to attach a RAID 1 hard drive to a computer with USB interface?

[Deguza]

Hello folks,

To undelete a number of deleted files, I am planning to attach one of the RAID hard drives from my Synology DS214 to my laptop by using a USB interface.

I am going to use Active Data Studio (ADS) for undeleting. Apperantly ADS can see LVM files.

The recovered files will be written to my laptop's hard drive.

Before doing this I am trying to find out if it is OK to attach the drive like this.

From what I understand, a single drive from a Raid 1 array, contains all parts of a file, in other words it does not "stripe a file". Is this correct?

Any comments?

Thanks,

Deguza

 

[Guest]

Hello folks,

To undelete a number of deleted files, I am planning to attach one of the RAID hard drives from my Synology DS214 to my laptop by using a USB interface.

I am going to use Active Data Studio (ADS) for undeleting. Apperantly ADS can see LVM files.

The recovered files will be written to my laptop's hard drive.

Before doing this I am trying to find out if it is OK to attach the drive like this.

From what I understand, a single drive from a Raid 1 array, contains all parts of a file, in other words it does not "stripe a file". Is this correct?

Any comments?

Thanks,

Deguza

Yes, that's right. Raid-1 has a copy on each drive. Just don't write on the drive and you will be fine. If you write on it, when you plug it back in, the Raid-1 will find inconsistencies, and bug out. You'll then need to rebuild it, and it might cause problems. Bad problems.