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Machine failure, dala lost, I need advice
Hi, I have old nas ready duo 2. It works fine for a year but today it is very bad day for me. Nas was too loud all the tiem, fan or what ever was so noisy as it is during start, but usually nas 1...
If you have only two disk you are probably in raid1 and I'm pretty sure you should be able to read the disk if you hook it to a computer.
Noise can be simple dust , try to clean a little bit. Try a cooler room if you have one.
NAS are basically PC with a simple GUI to handle disks and shares that's about it. You can do the same thing with a PC and something like freeNAS or MediaVault. If you look at AM1 processors you'll see that they consume only 25W which is on par with most NAS but they are in a PC case, so they are bulky (micro-ATX). That said if you want to go for 4bays and more, or want x86 processor, it would be cheaper to make a PC. NAS are good only because that's an all in one thing, that's an appliance, a preconfigured thing.
NAS shouldn't come alone though, they are meant to be paired, raid is not a safety for everything, only disk failure, if you house was flooded or burned (or whatever disaster you want) you would have lost your data the same way. NAS is not to blame here. RAID is not backup, never was and never will be. That's only a protection layer against disk failure. Let's say you have a superb lock on your door, then you discover a thief got in by the window, will you blame the door lock ?
I never lost a RAID array, so I'm not good at troubleshooting things but I'm pretty sure that raid can be mounted on another machine to recover data as long as disks are in good shape. It just takes time.
As for your suggested setup, for home use, it may be good, try that with bank systems ;) you loose 24H of data, you loose billions, RAID was a professional feature, it happened to be so awesome that it eventually got to home users. But keep in mind that before having NAS with RAID people used CD/DVD, external drives or paid services (FTP / cloud...) to backup their data. So NAS is complicated, but that's because is an enterprise feature before all, it's aimed at system administrator, not at home users.
Noise can be simple dust , try to clean a little bit. Try a cooler room if you have one.
NAS are basically PC with a simple GUI to handle disks and shares that's about it. You can do the same thing with a PC and something like freeNAS or MediaVault. If you look at AM1 processors you'll see that they consume only 25W which is on par with most NAS but they are in a PC case, so they are bulky (micro-ATX). That said if you want to go for 4bays and more, or want x86 processor, it would be cheaper to make a PC. NAS are good only because that's an all in one thing, that's an appliance, a preconfigured thing.
NAS shouldn't come alone though, they are meant to be paired, raid is not a safety for everything, only disk failure, if you house was flooded or burned (or whatever disaster you want) you would have lost your data the same way. NAS is not to blame here. RAID is not backup, never was and never will be. That's only a protection layer against disk failure. Let's say you have a superb lock on your door, then you discover a thief got in by the window, will you blame the door lock ?
I never lost a RAID array, so I'm not good at troubleshooting things but I'm pretty sure that raid can be mounted on another machine to recover data as long as disks are in good shape. It just takes time.
As for your suggested setup, for home use, it may be good, try that with bank systems ;) you loose 24H of data, you loose billions, RAID was a professional feature, it happened to be so awesome that it eventually got to home users. But keep in mind that before having NAS with RAID people used CD/DVD, external drives or paid services (FTP / cloud...) to backup their data. So NAS is complicated, but that's because is an enterprise feature before all, it's aimed at system administrator, not at home users.
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