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ReadyNAS RN102 network card dead
Hi, We had a mayor lighting storm passing over and caused a power outage. Afterwards my ReadyNAS was not accessible although the front lights all seem OK. When I looked at the back there is no gr...
ArnoBrok wrote:
- If I buy another RN102 would I be able to move the disks across?
- What other ReadyNas units would be compatible (like a newer 2 series)
You can directly migrate them to any OS-6 NAS (both intel and arm CPUs) - though if you migrate to one with an intel processor you'd need to reinstall apps.
ArnoBrok wrote:
- Is there a way I can mount them on a linux pc?
Yes that can be done too. You'd need to have mdadm and btrfs installed.
Something like
# apt-get update
# apt-get install mdadm btrfs-tools
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# cat /proc/mdstat
# mount -t btrfs -o ro /dev/md127 /mnt
New 2-bay models are the RN212 (ARM) and RN422 (x86). If you want a new 2-bay unit I’d go with one of those. We also have 4-bay, 6-bay and 8-bay desktop NAS models.
Migrating disks to another ReadyNAS or using a Linux PC to attempt data recovery working smoothly does assume that the disks are fine, the RAID and data volume on the disks are in a good state and in the case of moving to a ReadyNAS that the OS on the disks is in a good state. These may not be the case.
- Would I need to insert both disks or eould one work? I am trying to keep at least one disk as a sort of backup.
Thanks for the helpYou can migrate one. Then you'd need to do a resync when you added in the second.
StephenB wrote:
You can migrate one. Then you'd need to do a resync when you added in the second.
Which would mean you would be vulnerable to disk failure of the first disk during that resync, so before putting the second disk back in you'd want to do a backup first to a 3rd disk (e.g. a USB disk connected to the NAS or some other storage on your network).
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