I have pulled 8 disks from QNAP because the QNAP machine got broken, the disks were configured in raid 5.
Now I have setup a dell server with TrueNas and put the disks in the new setup.
I can see all my disks in the TrueNas. Is there any way I could import the QNAP raid5 in True Nas?
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Short answer no.
Longer answer maybe. But it’s complicated. And if you have to ask, the process may be beyond your skill set.
Someone else may have a more complete information. Or even a guide on how to do it. We can wait and see.
There is a whole thread on the QNAP forum which shows a number of options with alternate debian lvm and mdadm scans to get the volume info. I haven’t tried these but I do have Ubuntu Desktop running on my old TS453D!
https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?p=702846#p702846
Alternative short answer: TrueNAS is strictly a NAS. Data is supposed to come in through the network, not from reading local disks—and certainly not non-ZFS disks.
See if you can mount your RAID array to your desktop, without buying a new QNAP system to put them in.
