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NAS boot issue
One of the lads at work gave me his old, 8 year old NAS, I took it home booted, configured etc and it's been working fine as cold storage. The other week I come downstairs to see it's turned off, t...
If it is the power supply, which is high on the list of probable causes, it's fairly easy to connect a standard ATXV12 supply to the NAS externally in place of the internal one and run it with that to recover the data. That's actually also the easiest way to determine if it is the supply that's the issue.
Since you will be running it that way for a bit, you should block the internal power supply fan exhaust hole and any gaps created to allow the power cables to come out. Masking tape works fine. The remaining internal fan will then properly cool your drives.
Sandshark wrote:If it is the power supply, which is high on the list of probable causes, it's fairly easy to connect a standard ATXV12 supply to the NAS externally in place of the internal one and run it with that to recover the data. That's actually also the easiest way to determine if it is the supply that's the issue.
Since you will be running it that way for a bit, you should block the internal power supply fan exhaust hole and any gaps created to allow the power cables to come out. Masking tape works fine. The remaining internal fan will then properly cool your drives.
So any standard PSU that I can pull out of a dead PC in our graveyard at work should work? I literally need it to run for 2 or 3 hours so although cooling would be ideal, probably not the end of the world if I can't get a good seal.
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