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Stuuk1
Aspirant
Feb 09, 2017

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...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 11, 2017
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.

 

 

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Stuuk1
Aspirant
Feb 12, 2017

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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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 12, 2017
    Stuuk1 wrote:

    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?

     

    The idea is that you expand your volume as your storage needs grow, keeping your old files on-line.

     

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