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Readynas X6 or 600 Motherboard used?
Hello. I am very concern about my old Readynas breaking and possible losing all my valuable data. I was wondering if it might be possible to keep a spare motherboard on hand in case of the worse. ...
Unless you can find a unit on the second hand market, I highly doubt it. The ReadyNAS X6 and 600 use very old hardware. Even if the motherboard was a standard one (I expect it would be a custom one) it would likely be well out of production by now.
Your units came with a 1 year warranty so I would have worried about this well before now. The units are built to last and have lasted for your for several years so far.
If a unit fails (but not the drives) you can recover the data in one of your other Sparc boxes as I mentioned above (try to keep the firmware versions about the same as each other if possible).
If both units fail you could purchase another Sparc unit or recover the data using a PC (see Mounting Sparc-based ReadyNAS Drives in x86-based Linux
Your units came with a 1 year warranty so I would have worried about this well before now. The units are built to last and have lasted for your for several years so far.
If a unit fails (but not the drives) you can recover the data in one of your other Sparc boxes as I mentioned above (try to keep the firmware versions about the same as each other if possible).
If both units fail you could purchase another Sparc unit or recover the data using a PC (see Mounting Sparc-based ReadyNAS Drives in x86-based Linux
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