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ReadyNAS RN204 files not working after degraded disk recovery
Hi Everyone, I recently noticed that my ReadyNAS had the status DEGRADED and when I googled I found out that this is typically due to a disk failure. I only had 2 disks in a RAID1 configuratio...
Hi Sandshark,
I think one drive is completely broken. It won't even show up in the ReadyNAS Volumes admin page.
I tried with the drive that is "sort of" working.
My shares appears in the desktop tray application on the PC, but they keep disconnecting and
when I try to syncronize with my PC no files are being transferred. although I can here the drive buzzing.
When I went to login to the ReadyNAS admin interface I found that my old user/password did not work, but the
default NetGear User/password worked and it logged me in with the wizard as if I was setting it up fresh. The unit also
displays "ReadyNAS is in safe mode".
In "Volumes" I can see the harddrive, but it is marked in green = "Spare" and it says, "Select disk to create a volume"
I am not sure what my options are from here? I am contemplating to take the all or nothing approach and hit the
hard drives with a hammer to see if I can squeeze out a little bit of life from them, unless anyone has a better idea?
Thanks for any advice.
Cheers, Matt
One thing that I was wondering. If I have a RAID1 configuration with just 2 drives, could I plugin the drives in a normal PC and
see if I can use some standard disk repair programs to recover some of the data? Or is the data somehow scrambled because it was used in the ReadyNAS? Sorry if that is a stupid question.
It's not "scrambled", it's just in a format a PC won't understand: Linux BTRFS on top of MDADM RAID. There are tools that may allow you to recover some of the files, but they aren't cheap. There are free beta versions of BTRFS and MDADM for Windows, but I've not used them.
Ok, that was what I meant with "scrambled". It is in a format not natively readable by a PC.
Now even the "sort of" good drive is not even showing up under volumes.
I have just lost a lifetime of photos. You'd think by investing in one of these you are safe, but from now on
I will instead use cloud backup solutions.
Best Regards, Matt
MattWall1 wrote:
Now even the "sort of" good drive is not even showing up under volumes.
Just to clarify: did you attempt to boot up the NAS with the original (failing) drive installed by itself (other slot empty). If that failed to boot/mount your volume, did you also attempt to boot up the NAS with the second original (good) drive also installed by itself?
If both of those failed, then it might still be possible to get your photos back - though it would cost. ReclaiMe software is one popular RAID recovery package that supports BTRFS that has worked out for several people here.
MattWall1 wrote:
You'd think by investing in one of these you are safe, but from now on I will instead use cloud backup solutions.
Equipment - including disks - can fail, and cloud backup isn't bulletproof either. Generally you do need a backup plan in place to keep your data safe. Personally I have backup NAS, but also use cloud backup for disaster recovery.
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