I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
I think it had its uses in the past, specifically if it had the memory backup to prevent full array rebuilds and cached data loss on power failure.
Also at the height of raid controller use (I would say 90s and 2000s) there probably was some compute savings by shifting the work to a dedicated controller.
In modern day, completely agree.
I’m sure I’ve seen paid software that will detect and read data from several popular hardware controllers. Maybe there’s something free that can do the same.
For the future, I’d say that with modern copy on write filesystems, so long as you don’t mind the long rebuild on power failures, software raid is fine for most people.
I found this, which seems to be someone trying to do something similar with a drive array built with an Intel raid controller
Note, they are using drive images, you should be too.
The OP made clear it was a controller failure or entire system (I read hardware here) failure. Which does complicate things somewhat.
Sorry. I chose .local and I’m sticking to it.
I’ve been using thinkpads as a work laptop since they were branded IBM Thinkpad. So, I have nothing further to comment.