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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...
The disks went off to a Data recovery company who lie about their pricing and try to force you to part with a lot of money for no result. Luckily I spotted a page on the internet about them before I spent the money. They have been reported to the Trading Standards Office here in uk over 400 times already! They were also revealed on a german TV program. Googel Fields Data Recovry (or their many other scam names)
http://www.datarecoverycompanies.co.uk/fields-data-recovery-article-i164.html
Anyway...
I bought 2 replacement drives, and spent a month or so rebuilding about 50% of my data (from previous disks, and then more recent stuff dotted around).
Amazingly, disk 3 now suddenly starts producing errors! SO I turned the damn thing off.
Got my old ReadyNas Duo v2 (which has never thrown a disk error to my knowledge) all connected up, factory reset, and upgraded. To make a backup of the ReadyNas314
Low and behold, the thing won't turn on properly.
The LED said booting, the Power light flashed for a long time, but couldn't connect the browser. The LED display now alternates between OS version and name/IP, and the Power light and disk lights are all on permanently. I am getting more disk errors through e-mail from it:
Detected increasing reallocated sector count: [13777] on disk 3 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F29V7G] 179 times in the past 30 days.
Detected increasing ATA error count: [4200] on disk 3 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F29V7G] 6 times in the past 30 days.
But still no life.
Device is Offline.
Sorry, we could not restore the connection.
Do not reboot the device.
Call Netgear technical support (I'm not in USA!)
God, what a disaster this purchase was! :-(
http://www.datarecoverycompanies.co.uk/fields-data-recovery-article-i164.html
Anyway...
I bought 2 replacement drives, and spent a month or so rebuilding about 50% of my data (from previous disks, and then more recent stuff dotted around).
Amazingly, disk 3 now suddenly starts producing errors! SO I turned the damn thing off.
Got my old ReadyNas Duo v2 (which has never thrown a disk error to my knowledge) all connected up, factory reset, and upgraded. To make a backup of the ReadyNas314
Low and behold, the thing won't turn on properly.
The LED said booting, the Power light flashed for a long time, but couldn't connect the browser. The LED display now alternates between OS version and name/IP, and the Power light and disk lights are all on permanently. I am getting more disk errors through e-mail from it:
Detected increasing reallocated sector count: [13777] on disk 3 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F29V7G] 179 times in the past 30 days.
Detected increasing ATA error count: [4200] on disk 3 (Internal) [ST3000DM001-1CH166, Z1F29V7G] 6 times in the past 30 days.
But still no life.
Device is Offline.
Sorry, we could not restore the connection.
Do not reboot the device.
Call Netgear technical support (I'm not in USA!)
God, what a disaster this purchase was! :-(
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