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Reading NAS disk when NAS has failed
I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 2+ (Model RNDP200U). It no longer powers on. I verified that the external power supply is good. It has two 1TB drives that are mirrored. Is there some way that I can read th...
When I hit the power button the blue light doesn't come on. This uses the same power supply as my NAS Duo so I swapped power supplies with no change in the functioning of either system.
I brought the unit new and installed two 1TB WD RE drives that were on the Netgear approved list. (I don't buy used electronics for critical applications)
The NAS Ultra went out of warranty in May.
I had been running automatic backups to it from the PC since I installed the NAS. What I did was force a full back-up instead of the usual incremental backup thinking it would make for a cleaner restore.
I also have an NAS Duo that's been backing up my wife's computer (also purchased new). I took both of the disk's out of my NAS Duo and stuck in one of the disks from the Ultra+ thinking that would let me read it. The NAS Duo promptly formatted the disk (doesn't even have the courtesy to ask for a confirmation). So I'm down to one disk with my data on it.
Note that I have upgraded the disk capacity in my NAS Duo twice (from the original 250Gb that it came with, to dual 500 Gb, and most recently to dual 1TB drives - always using what Netgear recommended).
I brought the unit new and installed two 1TB WD RE drives that were on the Netgear approved list. (I don't buy used electronics for critical applications)
The NAS Ultra went out of warranty in May.
I had been running automatic backups to it from the PC since I installed the NAS. What I did was force a full back-up instead of the usual incremental backup thinking it would make for a cleaner restore.
I also have an NAS Duo that's been backing up my wife's computer (also purchased new). I took both of the disk's out of my NAS Duo and stuck in one of the disks from the Ultra+ thinking that would let me read it. The NAS Duo promptly formatted the disk (doesn't even have the courtesy to ask for a confirmation). So I'm down to one disk with my data on it.
Note that I have upgraded the disk capacity in my NAS Duo twice (from the original 250Gb that it came with, to dual 500 Gb, and most recently to dual 1TB drives - always using what Netgear recommended).
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