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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...
Reasonable comments.
However, I bought the camera and disks under the guidance of the company who manufacture the device that they were to supposed to work with. There's no one else better positioned to advise is there?
My gripe with this is that once I discovered the device was pretty much useless for my requirements for the first 6 months, through no fault of my own, I was stuck with waiting and trying to get it to work because of the additional items I had bought to try to make it work wouldn't necessarily work with another (probably much better) solution.
I understand disks do fail (but considering I have over 40 discs running at work and not one of them has failed *finds some wood to touch* it seems strange that this ReadyNas has destroyed 2 in under a year>
My device was used as large file storage, written to more often than read from, and maybe only really active once a day - Not some highly intensive read/write application or SQL server (like at my work).
I think it is the Surveillance add-on that is overworking them as this records my camera 24/7 - If I turn this add-on off, the disk errors stopp completely! Not a single one in a whole week that I tested it. As soon as it was turned back on again - disk errors on all 4 disks!
So considering the device was (and still will) throw false positives about any disks put in it suggesting they need replacing, how is an end-user supposed to identify when one actually DOES need replacing?
If I had gone with the information provided by the device I would be replacing all four disks at least ten times a day - Not going to happen, stupid idea, and would soon use up any savings I have!
If I go with the Netgear support's advice to not worry about them, then I end up with 2 disks failed and a loss of my data!
I don't see who else is qualified to advise (without the end result being Netgear saying, we didn't give you that advise so tough!)
It's a no win situation...
Easy for all parties involved to say, not our fault, these things happen?
As a home consumer, I cannot justify spending twice as much as I already had on having a 2nd ReadyNas to back up to (or something else that can store approx. 7TB of data?)
I will get a couple of new disks and see if I can scrape anything off the 1 bad disk that still responds.
Thank you for your advice on dd_rescue. Already downloaded and BootCD just booted so I understand how to work it.
However, I bought the camera and disks under the guidance of the company who manufacture the device that they were to supposed to work with. There's no one else better positioned to advise is there?
My gripe with this is that once I discovered the device was pretty much useless for my requirements for the first 6 months, through no fault of my own, I was stuck with waiting and trying to get it to work because of the additional items I had bought to try to make it work wouldn't necessarily work with another (probably much better) solution.
I understand disks do fail (but considering I have over 40 discs running at work and not one of them has failed *finds some wood to touch* it seems strange that this ReadyNas has destroyed 2 in under a year>
My device was used as large file storage, written to more often than read from, and maybe only really active once a day - Not some highly intensive read/write application or SQL server (like at my work).
I think it is the Surveillance add-on that is overworking them as this records my camera 24/7 - If I turn this add-on off, the disk errors stopp completely! Not a single one in a whole week that I tested it. As soon as it was turned back on again - disk errors on all 4 disks!
So considering the device was (and still will) throw false positives about any disks put in it suggesting they need replacing, how is an end-user supposed to identify when one actually DOES need replacing?
If I had gone with the information provided by the device I would be replacing all four disks at least ten times a day - Not going to happen, stupid idea, and would soon use up any savings I have!
If I go with the Netgear support's advice to not worry about them, then I end up with 2 disks failed and a loss of my data!
I don't see who else is qualified to advise (without the end result being Netgear saying, we didn't give you that advise so tough!)
It's a no win situation...
Easy for all parties involved to say, not our fault, these things happen?
As a home consumer, I cannot justify spending twice as much as I already had on having a 2nd ReadyNas to back up to (or something else that can store approx. 7TB of data?)
I will get a couple of new disks and see if I can scrape anything off the 1 bad disk that still responds.
Thank you for your advice on dd_rescue. Already downloaded and BootCD just booted so I understand how to work it.
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