Hi, I'm having an issue with a RAID with a volume I accidentally erased. My Yottamaster RAID started becoming unstable and was beeping all the time, so after giving up on it, I bought a Logitech enclosure and put the drives in, creating a RAID 5 volume with SoftRaid 8.
After I got everything set up, of my disks disappeared from the new RAID, and as I was verifying the other three, another one gave me issues. So I decided to format the "new" disks and try again. I seem to have had one of the volumes in my old (backup) RAID selected, and erased it.
The backup RAID was, I think, set up as two striped RAID volumes, which were then striped together to create a raid of that. This might not be the best way to do a RAID, but there was no option other than striped or mirrored disks, and at the time SoftRaid was not working with Apple Silicon at all.
I have bought a large external disk to serve as a working disk to hopefully save my data. Can anyone suggest what will happen when I use the Restore option in Disk Utilities? If I can save the files and hopefully the folder structure, that will be good. If there are any other tools besides Disk Utility I should be exploring, please let me know.
Sending the disks to a data service isn't an option as I'm in rural Japan.