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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...
If NetGear's support have bad advice that's one thing, but NetGear is not responsible for products such as hard disks and cameras bought from 3rd parties.
If you didn't know about these forums you could, have asked on other forums or even found a friend of yours more knowledgeable than you about these things and asked them.
Businesses backup servers that they spend much more money on than you spent on your NAS. The backup functionality in the Dashboard is there for a reason.
If you are willing to buy a few disks you could try cloning the bad disks onto new ones e.g. Using dd_rescue. dd_rescue would try to clone as much as possible. If it can clone enough then depending how bad the situation is some data might be recoverable though if support hasn't suggested that I guess it's possible things are already too far gone in this case.
If you didn't know about these forums you could, have asked on other forums or even found a friend of yours more knowledgeable than you about these things and asked them.
Businesses backup servers that they spend much more money on than you spent on your NAS. The backup functionality in the Dashboard is there for a reason.
If you are willing to buy a few disks you could try cloning the bad disks onto new ones e.g. Using dd_rescue. dd_rescue would try to clone as much as possible. If it can clone enough then depending how bad the situation is some data might be recoverable though if support hasn't suggested that I guess it's possible things are already too far gone in this case.
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