How to Read Disconnected ReadyNAS 102 Drive?

[mlbiss]

I've been using my ReadyNAS 102 for 3 years now and it's been great.  About a month ago, one of the drives was starting to report errors and I swapped it out.  Now I'm wondering if I can just keep this old drive around as a kind of point in time (not perfectly reliable) backup.  Linux does not seem to see a filesystem.  I can use photorec to pull off images, but is there any kind of other procedure that could convert the drive to something more useful without losing data.  The NAS is doing mirroring so conceptually all of the data should be there, but is it possible without writing a close of the NAS software?

[mlbiss]

I meant to say "clone of the software" not "close".

[StephenB]

The NAS uses mdadm, so you'd need to install/use that on the linux system.

And it uses the btrfs file system, so you'd also need to install that.

[mlbiss]

Thanks!