Terastation HS-DH0.0TGL/R5 question

[shholland]

   

My ethernet port (network card) got fried due to lightning. The drives appear to be intact, but I am getting prices north of $300 bucks to recover the data.

Two questions in order of my preference.

Can I just hook the hard drives up to a usb adaptor and manually recover the data I need from each drive? If I can, is there any way to know where the data is in a raid 5 configuration?

(or can I just plug them into my mac pro internal slots and access the data?)

 

If not

 

If I put my four drives in another terastation will it boot up and work correctly? Does it have to be the same model terastation, or will any similar model work? (none of these models are selling on ebay right now)

 

Thanks for any input and sorry if the questions are very basis.

 

Scott

[JoshC]

Your best bet would be to put them into another Terastation but it will have to be the same extact model.  From there you should be able to TFTP boot the unit and it should come up.  This should work but there is no guarantee it will, the firmware sits on the HD.  If all else fails you you can try a Program called UFS explorer.  Or if you know someone who is Linux Savy then they can possibly get to it.  Unfortunely you cannot use an external HD you have to put the drives back into there Array.