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Old HDD - Unable To View
Hi All, I have a ReadyNAS102 which wurs away just fine setup as RAID 1. Last year I replaced 2 x 3TB Seagate drives due to one suspected failing. I now need to access the working drive to re...
Hi and thanks for your reply.
The disks I bought I found were not suitable for the NAS as it is spinning almost 24/7 so I swapped for a better model / smaller in size from 3TB to 2TB.
Yes the data is only stored on both drives. Although I saw one failed, It still works but the NAS reported issues. When I plug it in to the reader, they both show in Disk Management as healthy.
Unfortunately no idea about firmware as I keep my NAS up to date when prompted. Firmware is now the latest I think 6.5.2 (sorry not in front of it atm)
When I bought my NAS I thought that I could just fill the disk up, remove them and store them ready for access later. I have a high turn over of data (photography) and my drives in the NAS now are almost full. Bit confused as to how to move forward with this as I may have to change my strategy!
The disks I bought I found were not suitable for the NAS as it is spinning almost 24/7 so I swapped for a better model / smaller in size from 3TB to 2TB.
Yes the data is only stored on both drives. Although I saw one failed, It still works but the NAS reported issues. When I plug it in to the reader, they both show in Disk Management as healthy.
Unfortunately no idea about firmware as I keep my NAS up to date when prompted. Firmware is now the latest I think 6.5.2 (sorry not in front of it atm)
When I bought my NAS I thought that I could just fill the disk up, remove them and store them ready for access later. I have a high turn over of data (photography) and my drives in the NAS now are almost full. Bit confused as to how to move forward with this as I may have to change my strategy!
I never recommand the step you took, the only thing allowed when a drive fails is to replace by a disk with same or greater capacity NEVER with a smaller one!
Stuuk1 wrote:
Hi and thanks for your reply.
When I bought my NAS I thought that I could just fill the disk up, remove them and store them ready for access later. I have a high turn over of data (photography) and my drives in the NAS now are almost full. Bit confused as to how to move forward with this as I may have to change my strategy!That's not a good plan with a NAS, at least with the internal drives. Major updates of the OS made after you removed the drive could cause issues. If you want to do something similar, attach that USB reader into the NAS and use it to offload some of your data to drives swapped on it. A scheduled backup job will keep the USB drive updated so you don't have a long backup when the time comes to swap it out.
I would think that you could mount the the drive you are trying to recover data from in the USB dock attached to the NAS, but I'm not sure what the NAS will do with the OS partiton on it and only half of a RAID array. Perhaps somebody else knows if it will automatically mount the data partition on the USB, if it will need to be manually mounted, and the command to do so.
Sandshark wrote:
I would think that you could mount the the drive you are trying to recover data from in the USB dock attached to the NAS, but I'm not sure what the NAS will do with the OS partiton on it and only half of a RAID array. Perhaps somebody else knows if it will automatically mount the data partition on the USB, if it will need to be manually mounted, and the command to do so.
I think you'd have to mount it manually.
Since he has both the old drives, I think it is reasonable to power down, remove the current disks, install one of the two old drives, and then power up. Assuming it handles the firmware upgrade properly, the shares will then all be accessible and they can be copied off. If something goes wrong, he would still have the second drive.
Thanks for all of your replies. When I got my NAS I thought that I could simply full the HDD's up and then take them out ready to use again at a later date to simply view the data via use of the ALL IN 1 HDD Docking unit. Seems as though that was wrong but now I am left thinking what is the point of the NAS as once the drives are full and I remove them the data is non accessible without a lot of messing about?
At the moment all I see that the NAS is god for is the RAID setup and remote viewing etc. Futureproofing your data via a NAS is a non-starter? That must be why so many people say to make a backup... I always though that setting my NAS in RAID 1 was my backup as the data was mirrored on both drives?
Sorry for what seem to be a novice opinion, I dont mean to be so stupid! I genuinely thought I had this NAS stuff sussed!
I have an old laptop ill chuck Linux on. I have used Ubuntu before, would you recommend this? Also, once I have Linux running, is it as simle as plugging in and viewing the files or is there some other trickery involved?
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