Hi all, I hope you are well.
I have recently been given a Buffalo LS-WXL Series NAS that needs all data restored off it. The NAS has two 1tb WD Green drives in it. The owner said that one day the device started clicking, then just "died". When I powered on the device, the fan bellowed smoke out the back of the device, and a chip was left burnt on the board:
![Image](https://hissmarthome.uk/f/nas%20(Custom).jpg)
I took the drives out of the NAS and connected them to my 3.5 HDD to USB dock. Disk 1 (the one plugged into the SATA connector where the burnt chip is) wouldn't power up and the dock wouldn't give off any lights. When I plugged Disk 1 straight into the PC, the PC refused to even turn on! However, Disk 2 powers up and shows up in Disk Management on Windows. After reading online for some tools that can recover data, I decided to try EaseUS Data Recovery. Partition 6 is the biggest and the one that I would like to get the data off so I ran a scan. I left the scan running overnight and it found around 44,000 images, videos, and documents.
When it came to recovery, EaseUS recovered 5% of the files and I checked the quality of them and all the images were horrible quality. Some weren't great quality (like 360p) and the rest were split into three parts, but they were in the wrong order. After this, I decided to swap over to Ubuntu, since this was a Linux NAS and Disk Management showed Partition 6 as an XFS filesystem. Before I switched over to Ubuntu, I cloned the disk using the HDD Raw Copy tool onto a 1.5tb disk.
When connecting the disk to the dock in Ubuntu, I was greeted with this in Disk Manager:
![Image](https://hissmarthome.uk/f/screen.png)
Ubuntu had been able to see some of the partitions and I could mount them, which I did. I got a nearly full copy of the operating system and logs. I tried to mount the 6th partition but had no luck. This is what I am seeing when I click on (what I assume is) the partition:
![Image](https://hissmarthome.uk/f/emptyblock.png)
After seeing that the partition was RAID 0, I read online that I can run a command "mdadm" on /dev/sd6 to see what information the system can get from it, this is the result:
![Image](https://hissmarthome.uk/f/mdadm.png)
I am just looking for what I can do next in terms of recovery. Disk 1 seems like it is pulling all power from whatever it is connected to and since the Disks may be in a RAID 0 setup, I do not know if I can recover the data without access to Disk 1.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Nathan