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keenanball
Jan 14, 2012Aspirant
Case Number: 17655849 NV+ Booting... Found Bad Disk
This is what I submitted to technical support about 30 minutes ago. I am copying here. Hi There, My NV+ (RND4450) became unresponsive over my network today. I attempted to power down the unit vi...
PapaBear1
Jan 15, 2012Apprentice
Keenanball - even if you were able to find an SATA to eSATA cable, that is just the signal cable. You would still need the power connection. mdgm's advice is sound. Now that you have access to the volume, perform a complete backup of all your critical and important data. This is a good idea anyway. The reason is if when you replace the drive and it is accepted by the NAS and a resync starts, this puts a long continuous strain on the drives (constant activity for 8 to 12 hours or more) during which if you have a weak drive, it could fail and then you have the real risk, indeed likely hood of data loss.
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