Separate TrueNAS Scale build drives moved to my windows pc

[freeloader231]

Hi All,

I had previously built a TrueNAS Scale machine of a Dell 5070 SFF I had laying around and got great use out of it. I had it on marketplace and sold the bare bones computer for a great valuation and now just have the drives and my overbuilt gaming desktop.

The original build had 48gb ram, i7-9700, and 2 boot drives (250 gb crucials) and 4 drives as a raid 1 I think, (1 tb crucial bx500s).

I have connected all the drives to the motherboard in my gaming pc and windows 11 sees all the drives in disk management, I was just curious what to use as a vm software for this, and if the drives will even read properly if I was able to pass all 4 of the storage drives through.

All help and advise on this is appreciated. Thank you. I do realize this is a sub optimal set up and use, but plan on this being temporarily permeant for probably far too long. Thank you all!

 

[sretalla]

If you care about the data on those drives, passing them into a VM isn't something I'd recommend unless you want to get hold of an HBA to pass the entire controller through.

If you're essentially just wanting to access the data to get it off the disks, look into ZFS on Windows:

OpenZFS on Windows

OpenZFS on Windows

openzfsonwindows.org

I wouldn't yet recommend using that method to add any data to the pool though as it's still "experimental".

If you go down the VM route (against my recommendation), VirtualBox is known to be OK for "testing" purposes.