Well, today's the day; the Poco F5 is now EOL and will not be getting any security updates anymore. Source: https://trust.mi.com/misrc/updates/detail?tab=phone
To bad; I bought it on 23 November 2023 and apart from the now lack of (security) updates; I don't see any reason to get a new phone. What's your opinion and plans for this phone?
Long story short; I had/have a Qnap TS-212 with 2 2TB drives in JBOD (I know; shouldn't have done that; but that was 15+ years ago). Backups were done manually once in a while to a external Seagate 4TB drive with Qnap's build in Backup tool.
Several months ago; one of the drives failed.
Don't know how exactly it failed, but accessing the files was spotty, until I basically couldn't access them anymore. (Backup started but in the end failed)
I did try some things, asked around for help (and got help) but ultimately; the disks have been in a closet, not powered on. That was several months ago.
Now; I should have a new PC coming in today/tomorrow (HP Elitedesk G8 SFF) that I want to use with Unraid. I have 2 12TB WD external drives for shucking; one for array and one for parity.
But I would like to give recovering the files from the disks one more try. In the past people have suggested installing Linux on a PC, connect the 2 disks at the same time (with sata; not USB) and try to recover files that way. That's certainly an option.
But today, when again researching how to do this; I have seen suggestions Unraid might be able to do this too. Connect the disks to the PC and use Unassigned Devices to access them.
Even if the disks are in JBOD, they suggested it (might?) work.
TLDR: Is that true? Is it possible to mount 2 disks - that were in JBOD mode (so 4TB total) in a Qnap NAS - in an Unraid system and use Unassigned Devices to get files of those disks?
(If the disk still physically work of course)