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dekkit
Nov 10, 2009Aspirant
ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool
Description This topic contains links to linux VMware images (Debian / Ubuntu) that have been modified to enable you to access your ReadyNAS duo HDDs from any machine with a USB plug and a SATA to US...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 16, 2010NETGEAR Employee Retired
It would be awesome and I have thought a bit about this before, but haven't actively tried to do it. It should work as you should be able to get the VM to see the USB drives. It sounds like a good idea. I guess the challenge would be in trying to transfer the data from the disks onto the Pro without needing to send the data over the network. You would need all disks to be working fine from the X-RAID array except for the parity disk (doesn't matter if this is working fine or not).
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