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Mike_NAS
Mar 29, 2015Aspirant
NV+ boot(?) issues - disks are clean
I started having a problem where my NV+ would freeze. It was kind of weird in that all of the LEDs would go out (even the power LED), but the LCD would stay lit with just general volume information o...
Mike_NAS
May 02, 2015Aspirant
Me again. The saga actually continued. I have no idea if others will benefit from this, but after a few days of copying data from the NV+, it died again. I had enough messing around with that, so I pulled the drives. I put all four drives into a Linux box I threw together, mounted the drives per the instructions here: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306 and started copying data. Somewhere along the line, the array froze and couldn't be accessed from the Linux box. I then grabbed some 2TB drives and used ddrescue to make a copy from the 1TB drives to the 2TB drives. One of the 1TB drives had an error that didn't seem correctable. Given it was a RAID array, I mounted the remaining 3 2TB drives (that copied cleanly) and spent about a week copying data from there.
With that copy complete, I'm now happy to have my data back. I then zeroed out the drives last night and put them back in the NV+ with the hopes of using it as a backup. After building the array, I let it sit overnight and the darn thing shutdown _again_. At this point, I'm pretty well convinced my NV+ is haunted. I suppose I'll try a full factory reset at this point, but it's really weird to be having a problem with, essentially, brand new WD Red Pro drives.
With that copy complete, I'm now happy to have my data back. I then zeroed out the drives last night and put them back in the NV+ with the hopes of using it as a backup. After building the array, I let it sit overnight and the darn thing shutdown _again_. At this point, I'm pretty well convinced my NV+ is haunted. I suppose I'll try a full factory reset at this point, but it's really weird to be having a problem with, essentially, brand new WD Red Pro drives.
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