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  • recover data from unfunctioned remaining RAID disks due to RAID controller failure

    In this case, you need a new RAID controller of similar type.

    Can I even simply attach one of the RAID 1 disk to the desktop system

    No. One disk out of a RAID array is different from a normal disk.

    Recovery becomes easy if you do not use a hardware RAID controller, but a ZFS software RAID instead. It does nearly all automatically. But you need to do a little more reading tutorials for the first setup.














  • better to pass the individual disks through to the VM and manage the zpool from there?

    That’s what I do.

    I like it better this way, because less dependencies.

    Proxmox boots from it’s own SSD, the VM that provides the NAS lives there, too.

    The zpool (consisting of 5 good old harddisks) can be easily plugged somewhere else if needed, and it carries the data of the NAS, but nothing else. I can rebuild the proxmox base, I can reinstall that VM, they all do not affect each other.