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No sane NAS should work that way.

Unless you have a giant raid array, where you need all the drives running at the same time on the same system, plugging in a single raid 0 member, for example, via usb to sata adapter, should let access its contents just fine.

Provided you’re on an OS that can read the file system. That can require some extra effort on windows.

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folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This is a qualified truth. In theory what you’re saying is true but for example with Synology they use their own raid format and while they ostensibly use btrfs they overlay their own metadata system on top.

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- MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Indeed.
  
  I’m not saying there aren’t NASes that do this. Unfortunately, there absolutely are.
  
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bluGill@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Many NAS work like that though. Hardware RAID always seems to work like that so if you get a fancy card that supports RAID you been make sure you have a good long term support contract that will be there for you when there are problems (if you are not paying hundreds of thousands per year you don't have a good support contract)

Not all are that way. Many run ZFS which is great for this and you can replace broken hardware and recover. BTFS is commonly used as well, probably not as good as zfs but likely good enough.

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