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Mark35
Apr 21, 2016Aspirant
R104 - power supply working but unit dead
Hi I have a Readynas 104 about 2 years old and it has just stopped working and will not power up. The power adaptor is showing a green light suggesting it is fine but the box itself is dead. Any ideas...
- Apr 27, 2016
The models ending in E are bundled with enterprise drives and the ones ending in D are bundled with desktop drives.
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 22, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
You can move the disks from the RN104 to a different current generation ReadyNAS model e.g. RN214. Which ReadyNAS model were you thinking of getting?
You should put a scratch disk (must not be from your array) in the new ReadyNAS, update it to the firmware you are running on the RN104, verify that the update completed successfully, power down, remove the scratch disk and move your disks across.
Note if the problem is with the disks or with the OS, array or volume on the disks it will remain when moving the disks to another chassis.
- Mark35Apr 24, 2016Aspirant
Many thanks for your reply, I am thinking or either a DS1815+ or ts-853 pro. I want to use the nas as a plex server and get it to do all the transcoding and have headroom for expansion as the amount of data I am storing is growing at an alarming rate. I know both the units I am thinking of are not Netgear but looking at the reviews they seem to fit the bill and nothing Netgear seem to have meets my needs
- Mark35Apr 24, 2016Aspirant
I forgot to mention disk 3 in my Raid 5 array went down the day before the nas box died so I am a little worried in getting it all back
- BrianL2Apr 24, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi Mark35,
How many disks were installed and which RAID is configured on your system? You may also want to consider OS6 210 series NAS to be your media server (DLNA, PLEX and etc.) plus it capable of Full HD 1080p transcoding.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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