I believe I have my answer as I've done a fair amount of research but wanted to do one final check with the experts.
I have a storage pool ('simple mode') that has 4 drives allocated to it. One drive died last night (hardware failure, click of death). I pulled out the drive and its toast. No other machines can recognize the drive either.
Just to confirm:
- There is NO manual way to get any data of any of the other drives due to the fact that the pool is in 'Simple' mode?