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Yeah it’s like 20 500gb bare drives ripped from equipment. Not sure how they are formatted, I need to get a software that lets me see if there is anything on them and then format then, just changed to Linux and it isn’t always seeing them.

I just want to get a bit of use and centralise all mynfiles while I move pc

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Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Linux should see most formats… you might need to install something to read NTFS… but if they’re FAT32, most distros have thst installed by default.

If you can’t read them, and there’s nothing on there that you need to recover, then just zero them and check them with a full SMART scan, then you’ll know if they’re reliable before wasting time with a RAID array that keeps chewing up drives.

But, I don’t know of any mobos that’ll connect that many drives…

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- Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Could you suggest or link to the program to tst them and read them?
  
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  - Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just basic commands will get you most of the way there… lsblk, fsck, etc.
    
    You can check the formatting and partitioning with something like gparted (a GUI for parted)
    
    For SMART, use smartctl or gsmartcontrol for a GUI
    
    Note: external USB enclosures / docks / adapters / etc. rarely pass SMART data, so you’d need to actually plug it into a mobo to check that.
    
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