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Netgear ReadyNAS Pioneer
Hoping there's a wizard here that can help me.
One of the lads at work gave me his old, 8 year old NAS, I took it home booted, configured etc and it's been working fine as cold storage.
The other week I come downstairs to see it's turned off, thought it was weird, turned it back on, accessed it, all good. Came downstairs the other day and it's off again but now won't boot, has power as 1 light on LAN 1 flickers on and off, every now and then I press the power button, the power light flashes on, CPU fan tries to spin and it just dies.
To top it off, I pulled all the WD NAS drives out, put in an external reader and they appear as empty and inaccessible even though there is about 200GB of data on one of the 5 drives...
Anyone have any ideas what the issue could be? How I can recover the data? Moving to cloud storage after this.
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kirito34 wrote:
The other week I come downstairs to see it's turned off, thought it was weird, turned it back on, accessed it, all good. Came downstairs the other day and it's off again but now won't boot, has power as 1 light on LAN 1 flickers on and off, every now and then I press the power button, the power light flashes on, CPU fan tries to spin and it just dies.
I am thinking that the power supply has failed. It is possible to replace it. You can try removing all the disks (labeling them by slot), and then power up. See if it powers up normally, but then reports a "no disks" status.
FWIW, a Pioneer would be older than 8 years. It was launched in 2008/2009 and was replaced by a pro 6 model with a faster processor in 2010. So it's 12-13 years old.
kirito34 wrote:
To top it off, I pulled all the WD NAS drives out, put in an external reader and they appear as empty and inaccessible even though there is about 200GB of data on one of the 5 drives...
Windows doesn't support Linux file systems.
Were you using XRAID or RAID-5? If you were, the files would have been spread across all 5 drives.
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