[sdiy] OT: how to save a dead Raided Drive?

[Dan Snazelle]

I am asking on this list because I know that many of you have a lot of experience with computers:


tonight i had the worst possible thing happen to my computer

my 3yr old 500 gig lacie ext hard drive died. (and no, i had not backed it up...money for a new drive had been non-existent)



this had three years worth of Logic song projects (many unmixed) ALL My datasheets, schematics, etc, as well as all my family's photos, etc.
and over 100 gigs of itunes.

now since it is 2 WestDigital 250gig drives in the box, i am assuming it is a raid setup with a disk controller card of some kind

one thing i see happen a lot with my clients is that the disk controller dies,

BUT then i wonder, if i get these drives into their own new enclosure, since they were in a RAID array, how do i get the
computer to read them properly? does the raid system split the data among the 2 drives, or is it really just 2 separate drives that could 
be read separately?

it is very unlikely that both drives would mechanically fail at once right?


anyway.....

at least i got my OTA problem solved

:(

any help, thoughts , appreciated


thanks