I have a raid5 array with 3 disks, that fails to assemble. Is there anything I can do to assemble this array and recover data? Is it recommended to try "mdadm --assemble --scan --force"? Thanks for any help. Output from mdadm /dev/sd[bcd]: /dev/sdb: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : e33fa6c7:74531e39:2bfad3d9:6ca85398 Name : ubuntu:0 Creation Time : Wed May 20 22:00:51 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5860271024 (2794.40 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 5860270080 (5588.79 GiB 6000.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860270080 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : active Device UUID : 85342508:2d7db0bb:8882a854:eea2269e Update Time : Wed Oct 10 12:41:54 2018 Checksum : dcf78cf7 - correct Events : 742277 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : .AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdc: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : e33fa6c7:74531e39:2bfad3d9:6ca85398 Name : ubuntu:0 Creation Time : Wed May 20 22:00:51 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5860271024 (2794.40 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 5860270080 (5588.79 GiB 6000.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860270080 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f13de21b:060f8819:f8d4b277:936fdb78 Update Time : Sun Sep 2 05:03:08 2018 Checksum : 4c0d0669 - correct Events : 882 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) /dev/sdd: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : e33fa6c7:74531e39:2bfad3d9:6ca85398 Name : ubuntu:0 Creation Time : Wed May 20 22:00:51 2015 Raid Level : raid5 Raid Devices : 3 Avail Dev Size : 5860271024 (2794.40 GiB 3000.46 GB) Array Size : 5860270080 (5588.79 GiB 6000.92 GB) Used Dev Size : 5860270080 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB) Data Offset : 262144 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : e01a9d25:f51f4b11:6a7df8b1:ed946164 Update Time : Wed Oct 10 13:19:44 2018 Checksum : 7392165b - correct Events : 742284 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : ..A ('A' == active, '.' == missing) And, output from "mdadm --assemble --scan -v": mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: no recogniseable superblock on /dev/sde mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/sda3 mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/sda2 mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/sda1 mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/sda mdadm: /dev/sdd is identified as a member of /dev/md/ubuntu:0, slot 2. mdadm: /dev/sdc is identified as a member of /dev/md/ubuntu:0, slot 0. mdadm: /dev/sdb is identified as a member of /dev/md/ubuntu:0, slot 1. mdadm: added /dev/sdc to /dev/md/ubuntu:0 as 0 (possibly out of date) mdadm: added /dev/sdb to /dev/md/ubuntu:0 as 1 (possibly out of date) mdadm: added /dev/sdd to /dev/md/ubuntu:0 as 2 mdadm: /dev/md/ubuntu:0 assembled from 1 drive - not enough to start the array. mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically