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ReadyNAS NV - Can't connect
Bought in 2006 as Infrant ReadyNAS NV, and it worked well until now. I replaced a couple failed disks over the years with no problem. Last week my ATT fiber gateway was replaced last week and now th...
The ReadyNAS NV started up fine and is running on it's original RAID disks, and thankfully, I was able to get all the data copied off of the NAS! Thanks to everyone on the thread for your assistance! :smileyvery-happy:
One weird thing:
With the test disk installed, Raidar showed the NAS was running on lastest firmware.
But with the old RAID array disks installed the firmware version shown in Raidar now says it's still running firmware "4.01c1-p1" The NAS has not updated the old disks to the newer software. I will retire it now anyway so doesn't matter.
I would like to make a donation in thanks for your assistance StephenB. Can you PM your paypal addy?
Thanks
Rich
Images need to be manually reviewed and approved before they are shown. So there is always a lag.
Rich17 wrote:
OK I've made good progress. I found a brand new WD Red 3TB HDD (circa 2018) to use for testing. ... I moved the one test disk through all 4 bays (swapping with NAS off) and they all eventually indicated their corresponding steady green light.
Good!
One comment here - your NAS doesn't support disks > 2 TB. It will recognize the 3 TB drive (as you found), but it ends up using less than 1 TB of space. That's not a problem for your testing, but you do need to stay at 2 TB or less for your operational drives. BTW, it also won't handle USB drives that are > 2 TB.
Rich17 wrote:
Am I ready to install my original three RAID5 drives containing the data from my old NAS? I have them marked in original drive bay order.
Should I install all three drives at the same time?
Yes and Yes.
Install all the drives at the same time (with the NAS powered down). Trying to install them one at a time won't work at all (and attempting it could lose your data).
The NAS should be able to handle any order, but installing them in the original slots is safest.
The ReadyNAS NV started up fine and is running on it's original RAID disks, and thankfully, I was able to get all the data copied off of the NAS! Thanks to everyone on the thread for your assistance! :smileyvery-happy:
One weird thing:
With the test disk installed, Raidar showed the NAS was running on lastest firmware.
But with the old RAID array disks installed the firmware version shown in Raidar now says it's still running firmware "4.01c1-p1" The NAS has not updated the old disks to the newer software. I will retire it now anyway so doesn't matter.
I would like to make a donation in thanks for your assistance StephenB. Can you PM your paypal addy?
Thanks
Rich
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