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AndyBee1
May 08, 2014Aspirant
ReadyNAS 314 - a year of hell and now lost 10years of data!
I bought a ReadyNAS 314 when they were new in the market back in April 2013. I bought it partly because I wanted to safeguard my increasing data storage with redundancy in case of disk failure, and al...
TeknoJnky
May 08, 2014Hero
surveillance issues aside..
1) you ignored multiple email warnings about disk errors?
2) then you went away and got degraded volume (1 disk failed!)
3) then however long after, 2nd disk failed = no more data
unfortunately you (and support) should have taken the disk errors more seriously, I mean really they don't just happen for no reason.
no other nas with single redundancy could have saved your data either.
no raid is ever a back up.
backup = multiple copies of the same data on different devices and ideally different locations.
1) you ignored multiple email warnings about disk errors?
2) then you went away and got degraded volume (1 disk failed!)
3) then however long after, 2nd disk failed = no more data
unfortunately you (and support) should have taken the disk errors more seriously, I mean really they don't just happen for no reason.
no other nas with single redundancy could have saved your data either.
no raid is ever a back up.
backup = multiple copies of the same data on different devices and ideally different locations.
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