My old Mac Pro has died and cannot be recovered. I had 3 Samsung NVMe drives in RAID 0 (PCIe), 2 SSD in RAID 0 and 2 old hard disks in RAID 0. All the info is OK none of the drives have failed. Is it possible to simply install these drives into respective RAID 0 external enclosures on another Mac and recover the files?
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The RAID-ness of these drives did NOT die with your old Mac.
if you used Apple Disk Utility RAID to set up these drives, then when they wake up in a different Mac, they are still a RAID.
I expect SoftRAID is similar.
These drives have their customized Drivers ON the drives, and are not generally accessible unless/until that Driver is loaded. Once loaded, that driver knows it is part of a RAID, and can find its other member drives and proceed to Mount the RAID set and GO..
Yes they were set up with Mac RAID utility. That sounds good news indeed.
Now that you have had a 'near-death experience' with this setup, consider this:
RAID is NOT backup! Mirrored RAID is used to reduce the time-to-repair after a failure, and to keep drive failures from becoming a data disaster. It does not protect from human error, crazy software, or 'just-because' failures.
Most users would be better served using multiple drives to make multiple backups, rather than dedicating multiple drives to RAID arrays.
Yes good advice indeed Thank you Best wishes Peter
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