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Shadowboxr
Aug 21, 2020Aspirant
ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer -- thought I was out of the woods -- dual disk dead recovery -- shares gone
ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition (X-RAID2), RAIDiator 4.2.31 Bought the pro pioneer empty and filled it with 1.5 Gb Barracudas a long time ago. Was getting lots of SMART error on disks 1 and 3 a few...
StephenB
Aug 22, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Cloning is often helpful, but since bad sectors can't be transferred it often does result in file system corruption. RAID redundancy can't fix it, since it can't determine what sector in the stripe is bad. You likely would have been better off cloning the healthier disk, and booting up the NAS w/o the sickest. But its too late to change that now.
Info on Netgear's Data Recovery Service is here: https://kb.netgear.com/69/ReadyNAS-Data-Recovery-Diagnostics-Scope-of-Service
Shadowboxr
Aug 24, 2020Aspirant
StephenB wrote:You likely would have been better off cloning the healthier disk, and booting up the NAS w/o the sickest.
In retrospect, that makes excellent sense. Oh well...
Thx for the link StephenB
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