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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...
Yeah, if disks can't be read then in some cases swapping mechanical parts using parts taken from a working drive of the same model may help.
As you can imagine such a labour intensive process is one of the reasons that professional data recovery costs a lot of money. Backing up data can be expensive particularly if you have a lot to backup, but the cost of backups has to be weighed against the cost of professional data recovery and how much one values data.
I'm not sure whether I'd take the controller from one failing disk and put it on another, but then I guess it depends on what in the disks has failed.
As you can imagine such a labour intensive process is one of the reasons that professional data recovery costs a lot of money. Backing up data can be expensive particularly if you have a lot to backup, but the cost of backups has to be weighed against the cost of professional data recovery and how much one values data.
I'm not sure whether I'd take the controller from one failing disk and put it on another, but then I guess it depends on what in the disks has failed.
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