NV+ (v1) PSU died

egeek wrote:
I did try a couple ATX 1.x PSU's to power up the NAS in the course of troubleshooting until I learned that ReadyNAS PSU's were wired differently.

There is a post somewhere on the forum about what you'd need to do rewire a standard PSU (do at own risk and only if you are comfortable with messing with stuff like that).

egeek wrote:
Is that service advisory still valid? I'm not so inclined to chase Netgear about it given the age of the unit, but am I entitled to any support for this anymore?

In the US, they still do the PSU replacement. I don't know about down here. It is up to each region division of NetGear to decide what they do in regards to this.

egeek wrote:
My ReadyNAS's mainboard and drive bay card appear ok. Could I buy a replacement PSU (I saw some on Amazon) and expect it to work ok?

Yes, if the PSU is the only problem that would work fine. PSU replacement instructions are here: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/hardware/how_do_i_replace_the_stock_power_supply_on_the_readynas_nv

egeek wrote:
It looks like I will be in the market for a new ReadyNAS if the option above is not viable. Should i go with an NV+ v2 (or something better?) and will the drives from my old sparc NV+ slot in and gain access to the old array and data?

The RAID format is different unfortunately so you can't migrate your disks across to the NV+ v2 or any of the other current models.