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Apr 23, 2016

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10 yr old RN-NV stopped working after power loss. What are options to get XRAID drives working again

Hey everyone! I actually bought my REadyNAS NV in october of 2006. There was the PSU fiasco after a year, but after replacing the PSU, it has been chugging along ever since. The only other hting I've done is to replace my original 250GB drives iwth 1TB drives in an X-RAID setup.

Fast forward to yesterday and we lost power briefly and of course my REadyNAS is set to not power back up after that. I manually the power button and I heard a crack and pop adn that was it. No more power to the RN.

Of course, to get the data off, I need another ReadyNAS because it's using the proprietary X-RAiD. I am wondering if I buy this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BNI4CVG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687702&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000W3X480&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=14EK4AYARYX0V3Z8AHEP

Will that allow me to pop the drive back in and everything will start working again? If not, what are my options? I have 13 years worth of pictures and music adn vidos and documents and so on and so forth.

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

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StephenB
Apr 23, 2016
XRAID is layered on top of standard RAID modes. You can access your data from an x86 linux system: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306

The RN104 isn't compatible with your disks (the CPU is different, and the data volume disk is formatted differently). However, Netgear support can help if you are migrating your NV+ data to a new OS6 platform. There is more information here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29876

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 23, 2016
XRAID is layered on top of standard RAID modes. You can access your data from an x86 linux system: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306

The RN104 isn't compatible with your disks (the CPU is different, and the data volume disk is formatted differently). However, Netgear support can help if you are migrating your NV+ data to a new OS6 platform. There is more information here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29876
- Helevitia
  Aspirant
  Apr 23, 2016
  Awesome, thanks! Exactly the kind of info I was looking for. Have a great day!
- Helevitia
  Aspirant
  Apr 28, 2016
  Quick question. If I access my data via linux, it doesn't talk about how to setup the drives physically? I'm assuming x-raid is just raid 5? Do I need to plug the drives in order and then do I need to do anything in linux such as software raid 5 before trying to mount the drives?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Apr 28, 2016
    I don't think the order matters.
    
    Technically the NV V1 xraid uses RAID-4 (because it has a dedicated parity disk) but we usually call it RAID-5 here (and flexraid for the v1 also calls it RAID-5 in the admin ui and the manual).