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joeC64
Oct 17, 2019Aspirant
RN214 dead drives
I hope I'm not completely dead, but hoping someone has a solution- I have (3) 4 tb disks in bays 1-3 and a 1.5 tb disk in bay 4. I purchased a 10tb to place in bay one, and when that populated i wa...
Sandshark
Oct 17, 2019Sensei
If I am reading you right and you pulled two drives of a 4-drive RAID5 with the power still applied, then you are lost. Two of your drives are out of sync with each other and the other two, and you need a minimum of three in sync to have a usable volume.
Netgear paid recovery can probably recover most, if not all, of your data since you didn't write anything to it. You can use that 10TB in a USB dock to hold the recovered data while you do a factory default with the current drives. I assume you wouldn't be asking this if you already had a backup, in which case you just factory default and restore from backup.
I don't understand why you didn't just replace the 1.5 with the 10. End result would be the same with less resync time.
- joeC64Oct 17, 2019Aspirant
Thanks! Yeah, It was late and I was stupid...... Mostly just backups from other PC's..... Not critical just would be convenient......
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