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jwishnie
Jan 18, 2012Aspirant
Replacing a fried NV & saving the data
I have a first generation (5 yrs old) ReadyNAS NV w/4 1TB drives in it—running X-Raid1 in a Raid5 configuration. It fried. Just fully failed with the smell of burnt motherboard. Questions: 1....
PapaBear1
Jan 18, 2012Apprentice
Yes, a completely different file system. Have you determined if it is the PSU? (You can take off the side plates and remove the upper rear panel with the large fan and then visually inspect the PSU without removing it. If it is the PSU and you have a burned smell, there are probably several bulged and burned capacitors.
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