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Having trouble with NV+ #24017506
Hello, I'm new to this forum, but not new to ReadyNAS devices. I've got two NV+ NAS' which I've had since 2010. They both have 4x 2TB seagate HDD's configured for RAID 5 for 6TB storage each. S...
OK, this is whats happened!
I have a NV+ with 4 X Seagate 2TB drives in a 4 drive arrray.
A month or two ago it didn't start up correctly and 'froze' on the checking volume stage.
It also came up with 'kernel panic' on a few restarts.
I eventually figured out that disk 3 is faulty (by taking the drives out one by one and running seatools on them, disk 3 spins up but it actually doesn't even detect which in itself is strange becuase when it was in the NAS it's status light was coming on).
Replace disk 3, resync the array and all will be well you would think!!
I inadvertantly started the NAS without disk 4 inserted correctly. So the NAS started up with disks 1, 2 & 3 connected, at that stage it was the faulty disk 3.
After replacing disk 3 and with disk 4 correctly installed, the NAS starts without any problems, BUT the original array/volume is no longer there.
The LCD display says c drive 0/0MB free.
The admin web page shows that disks 1 & 2 are part of the array and new disk 3 and old disk 4 are not part of the array.
Netgear support are suggesting that the array is not recoverable!
Does anyone have any experience with a situation like this?
I have about 4TB of personal data on there, basically a life's collection of digital data so I'm on the verge of devastation.
Is there a magic recipe for getting disk 4 back in the array? I can't see that the contents of the disk 4 would have changed.
Thanks,
Stuart
I have a NV+ with 4 X Seagate 2TB drives in a 4 drive arrray.
A month or two ago it didn't start up correctly and 'froze' on the checking volume stage.
It also came up with 'kernel panic' on a few restarts.
I eventually figured out that disk 3 is faulty (by taking the drives out one by one and running seatools on them, disk 3 spins up but it actually doesn't even detect which in itself is strange becuase when it was in the NAS it's status light was coming on).
Replace disk 3, resync the array and all will be well you would think!!
I inadvertantly started the NAS without disk 4 inserted correctly. So the NAS started up with disks 1, 2 & 3 connected, at that stage it was the faulty disk 3.
After replacing disk 3 and with disk 4 correctly installed, the NAS starts without any problems, BUT the original array/volume is no longer there.
The LCD display says c drive 0/0MB free.
The admin web page shows that disks 1 & 2 are part of the array and new disk 3 and old disk 4 are not part of the array.
Netgear support are suggesting that the array is not recoverable!
Does anyone have any experience with a situation like this?
I have about 4TB of personal data on there, basically a life's collection of digital data so I'm on the verge of devastation.
Is there a magic recipe for getting disk 4 back in the array? I can't see that the contents of the disk 4 would have changed.
Thanks,
Stuart
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