Original Infrant ReadyNAS - ReadyNAS NV+v2 -- Trying to recover files

Question

I own an original Infrant ReadyNAS NV (from way back in the day). It took the preverbial dirt name a few years back; so I tried replacing the power supply as that seemed to be the most obvious option when you push the power button and it doesn't come on. Didn't work, so I put it in a closet and promptly forgot about it; sadly. I'm now trying to recover the files off of the drives in it, which was formated using the XRAID option. I e-bay'd an NV+v2 not realizing that the core processor infrastructure changed between the versions.

My question is this: Is it even possible to get the newer readynas to read the original xraid file structure, or did I just make a $150 mistake on purchasing this guy?

Any help would be appreciated; trying to recover pictures of my first kid that were stored on the old one. Sadly I don't have any other copies except frozen on these xraid drives.

auximage · Answer

As a follow up, I seem to see that XRAID with 4 drives was using RAID5.&nbsp; Would it be possible to reset the NAS and configure it for RAID5, then put the old drives in?&nbsp;&nbsp;

StephenB · Answer

Unfortunately you made a $150 mistake.&nbsp; You can't migrate your array to the v2.
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If you can get at least three of the drives connected to a PC (either SATA or with USB adapter/docks) you could offload the files with r-studio.&nbsp;&nbsp;https://www.r-studio.com/

auximage · Answer

It was a 4 disk setup w/ XRAID, wasn't that just a non-proprietary RAID version?&nbsp;

StephenB · Answer

auximage&nbsp;wrote:
It was a 4 disk setup w/ XRAID, wasn't that just a non-proprietary RAID version?&nbsp;

The NV+ v1 actually uses RAID-4 underneath (same idea as RAID-5, but with a dedicated parity disk, instead of spreading the parity blocks across all the disks).&nbsp; It has some hardware acceleration for the parity blocks, and they are written to an unpartitioned part of the parity disk (usually the last one).
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The v2 should be using normal RAID-5 with purely software RAID.&nbsp; But keep in mind that with both NAS the OS partition is on the hard drives, and the systems boot from the hard drives.&nbsp;
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The OS is quite different on the v2.&nbsp; Your idea of doing a reset and then migrating the disks won't work.&nbsp; The system either won't boot with those disks (detecting a "corrupt root"), or if you are unlucky (or try to hot-swap them) it will reformat the disks and create a new empty volume.

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