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Clearly too stupid to own a NAS
Hi all,
Just wondering if I should give my NAS to someone here?
I had my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 start to warn me of disk errors and possible failure a few days back. Thought I'd purchase a WD 4TB Red to replace the failing WD 2TB Green.
Had some problems getting the drive to be recognised by the NV+, so thought I'd yank the other drives out and reinstall the OS on the 4TB and start from there.
I should point out at this stage, I just use JBOD. The material on the drives is just tv shows.
Went well, detected the drive and I was up and running again. The next logical step, one would assume, would be to insert the non-stuffed NAS drives back into the NAS? I thought caution was appropriate at this point and only inserted 1 drive.
We all know where this is going.
The f*&*#&# helpful little NAS proceeded to format the 98% full drive without even letting me know it was going to do so.
How the hell does one add JBOD drives back to a NAS? If this was a RAID array, I would understand why this wouldn't work, but these are just drives!
Don't support there's any data recovery options for ext4 drives, while we're at it?
Think I might invest in a HP Microserver...
Just wondering if I should give my NAS to someone here?
I had my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 start to warn me of disk errors and possible failure a few days back. Thought I'd purchase a WD 4TB Red to replace the failing WD 2TB Green.
Had some problems getting the drive to be recognised by the NV+, so thought I'd yank the other drives out and reinstall the OS on the 4TB and start from there.
I should point out at this stage, I just use JBOD. The material on the drives is just tv shows.
Went well, detected the drive and I was up and running again. The next logical step, one would assume, would be to insert the non-stuffed NAS drives back into the NAS? I thought caution was appropriate at this point and only inserted 1 drive.
We all know where this is going.
The f*&*#&# helpful little NAS proceeded to format the 98% full drive without even letting me know it was going to do so.
How the hell does one add JBOD drives back to a NAS? If this was a RAID array, I would understand why this wouldn't work, but these are just drives!
Don't support there's any data recovery options for ext4 drives, while we're at it?
Think I might invest in a HP Microserver...
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- The NAS worked as designed. You hot-added a disk (added a disk while the NAS was on) and the NAS wiped the newly added disk.
The OS is stored on all the disks. The NAS will wipe disks that are hot-added automatically, create the necessary partitions and mirror the OS.
You should be able to power down, remove all disks (including both the 4TB disk and the wiped disk) and put your remaining good disks only in the NAS and see the data on them.
As for the disk that was wiped your data is most likely gone, especially if it is large files like video. Though since it's a single disk you could still try data recovery software.
When in doubt about something like what adding a disk will do, ask first. And now that you are feeling the pain of data loss consider backing up your important data in future. No important data should be entrusted to a single device.
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