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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...
The models ending in E are bundled with enterprise drives and the ones ending in D are bundled with desktop drives.
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
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
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 TeamBrian
I have 4 x 3tb WD Red NAS drives in Flex Raid. Getting a little worried as just before it died I had a warning that drive 3 had failed. Just hope when I get the NAS box up and running again it rebuilds the array without loosing data :manfrustrated:
As fro the next NAS I am looking for 5 - 8 bays for future proofing as my data needs are getting far bigger than I estimated and far better performance.
I was new to the NAS scene when I got the R104 and whilst it is proberbly good value for money the performance is not what I was looking for. When I upgrade I will also proberbly change to 7200 RPM Enterprise class drives too.
Hi Mark35,
I presume you only have one volume with RAID 5 (flex). With that being said, you have data redundancy and RAID 5 uses one of the hard drives to protect you from data loss if one hard drive fails. Also, have you contacted our support team to process an RMA for the chassis or the PSU?
With regard to upgrading to a bigger NAS with much more powerful CPU and supports 5-8 bays, I would recommend RN316 or RN516. These are being sold with bundled enterprise drives.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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