my 3-month old Western Digital MyCloud EX2100 ( 2-bay ) rebooting its every 5 minutes. although I could see two RAID 1 4TB drives are intact, I am not able to extract data from it before RMA. some data fall in-between the backup window.

the data recovery service is apparently more expensive than buying a new enclosure. my TWO questions :

1) could I plug-and-play and restore the data on an identical new enclosure ?

2) if I buy a EX4100 4-bay enclosure, could I restore this set of RAID 1 on the new enclosure ?

any other trick to access data from this RAID 1 set ?

thanks

RAID 1 is a simple disk mirror so you should be able to plug either of the disks into a standard USB HDD Dock or enclosure and access the data.

In theory yes you can plug the drives into another identical enclosure. I wouldn't recommend that though until the data is safely copied somewhere else.

I think using RAID 1 in a cheap HDD enclosure offers a false sense of security.

In reality the chance of the enclosure failing is far higher than that of either disk failing prematurely. Or even worse, corruption in one disk being propagated to the second.

thanks Demon

yeah, RAID is an uptime solution, not a data protection solution.

since the WD MyCloud is Linux-based NAS, a Linux system is needed for reading into either member of the RAID 1 disks ( but I am on Windows ). there are some RAID recovery applications, yet no idea their quality.

my concept is - installing the existing RAID 1 set into an enclosure with the identical hardware RAID controller. if anyone had tried this concept, please let me know.

cheers