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Title: Can I read the drive with a SATA3-TO-USB converter ?
Post by: Yongthy on January 05, 2016, 12:30:48 AM

I have two drives in my DNS-325 . Now I want to get one drive out, read data in it with a SATA3-TO-USB convertor, or put it into a PC. Can I get data out in this way ? Thank you .

Title: Re: Can I read the drive with a SATA3-TO-USB converter ?
Post by: ivan on January 05, 2016, 04:12:22 PM

If this is one of your standard non RAID drives (or a drive from a RAID 1 array) then you need to read the 'Data Recovery' sticky post above this.

You must realise that the drive will be formatted as a Linux Ext3/4 drive and is therefore not readable by windows unless you have an installable file system driver installed or a program that will read the Linux drive format.

If you have a Linux computer then there should be no problems at all.  We have used a live linux CD booted computer to recover data from a RAID 1 array disk and copy it to a USB drive without problems, although it is rather slow.