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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.
joeC64
Oct 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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