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Rainmaker11
May 21, 2015Aspirant
Lost all my data on my RN104 - anything I can do?
I've got a ReadyNAS 104 that has lost all my data. After receiving an error message that stated one of my drives was having issues, the front panel locked up but I could still see my shares and files...
Rainmaker11
May 23, 2015Aspirant
Just to be clear. My email alerts were indeed set up but I didn't receive any alerts. It is possible that there was a glitch in the email system.
The first time that I was given any indication that anything abnormal was occurring was when I got a yellow warning notice at the top of the admin web page telling me about a problem with disk 2, the Seagate, I never received any warning about the other failing disk EVER!!! The yellow notice showed up after I updated the firmware.
My comments about casually glancing at the logs still stands. As of right now with the bad Hitachi drive in the box my admin page reports the status as "healthy". So I did indeed run with bad drives for a number of months without every knowing about the problems until it was too late. And yes the error counts are huge, so why didn't that trigger the software? The status says healthy but the logs say something very different. I'd say that was a problem.
So that's my experience so far with this Netgear box. Am I disappointed? Somewhat.. I don't expect a perfect system and I have had many years of hard drives, tapes, SSD's, and discs failing so I realize that there isn't anything out there yet that's going to be perfect. I get that it's not a matter of if but when and when this Nas failed it didn't totally shock me but I did hope for something a bit better than what was delivered.
The first time that I was given any indication that anything abnormal was occurring was when I got a yellow warning notice at the top of the admin web page telling me about a problem with disk 2, the Seagate, I never received any warning about the other failing disk EVER!!! The yellow notice showed up after I updated the firmware.
My comments about casually glancing at the logs still stands. As of right now with the bad Hitachi drive in the box my admin page reports the status as "healthy". So I did indeed run with bad drives for a number of months without every knowing about the problems until it was too late. And yes the error counts are huge, so why didn't that trigger the software? The status says healthy but the logs say something very different. I'd say that was a problem.
So that's my experience so far with this Netgear box. Am I disappointed? Somewhat.. I don't expect a perfect system and I have had many years of hard drives, tapes, SSD's, and discs failing so I realize that there isn't anything out there yet that's going to be perfect. I get that it's not a matter of if but when and when this Nas failed it didn't totally shock me but I did hope for something a bit better than what was delivered.
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