Recovering a Drobo 5N

I have had the disks from my Drobo 5N sitting in protective cases for five years. We had a power cut while it was doing something and from that point I was unable to connect to it despite everything I tried. I did get in contact with a specialist Drobo recovery business who quoted over £1k to restore the files, plus I would need to need to ship it to them and would probably need some other storage solution. So I delayed. Meanwhile the company shut, I found another closer so we could drop off the disks. Fortunately most of the important files needed were on the cloud and so over time I forgot about the disks. This week I questioned Claude if I could recover the files myself and the answers it gave me were strong enough for me to purchase a new Segate 24Tb drive (how big???) and a cheap hard drive dock. Yesterday I was able to make disk images of all five 2TB disks I had used in the Drobo and delightfully they had no bad sectors, no errors and all the drives span up without issue - left…