Kind of, buy not necessarily, if the drive is “intact”. Although you didn’t get to shut it down. There is a method to move your drive to a new tablo, if you conclude this path:
There are also topics and post about recovering/exporting recordings from the drive. It’s a PITA without the tablo, but if it’s important enough it can be done.
is just one example.
This revives the discussion using a DVR as a media library. Do you store all you digital content on a semi-proprietary device? (it’s not completely proprietary as they allow 3rd party apps to export recordings into a “universal” format playable across platforms and wide variety of players and allows for backup)