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ReadyNAS 212 will not connect at all
I have a ReadyNAS 212 that was working fine up until a week ago. Since then it will not connect. This has home and business documents on it. I need to access the drives. Troubleshooting 1. Wired...
Thanks. Separately adding found drive 2 was bad. I was able to boot the NAS on Drive 1 and all data is there. Netgear needs to add this to troubleshooting, I haven't found a go troubleshooting guide.
This forum is often your best troubleshooting guide, especially for those past free Netgear tech support. Just using one drive would not have worked if your configuration wasn't RAID0, and a user making a bad choice from a troubleshooting guide could make things worse, not better.
If the forum had a better search engine, you likely could even have found the solution from when it was posted for another user in a similar situation. Google is a pretty good alternative for searching here, though.
Glad everything is still intact for you. I recommend you make a backup before replacing the bad drive. The re-sync process is drive intensive, so there is a chance the other drive will fail during it, especially if it's the same age or older than the other. If It does fail, you will lose your data.
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