Recovered a client's RAID 5 array with a $40 USB dock

Last month I had a small business client in Tacoma with a dead RAID 5 on an old Dell PowerEdge. The controller was shot, but the drives were fine. I pulled all three, hooked each to a cheap USB dock, and rebuilt the array in Linux with mdadm. It took about 6 hours but recovered every file without a recovery service. Anyone else tried this route instead of sending drives out?

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oscarthompson16d ago

Is it just me or does everyone try the cheap fix first before the expensive one, only to learn the cheap fix was the easy part?