ReadyNAS Duo v2 won't reboot or do OS reinstall

mdgm wrote:
The word "until" implies that the reset button needs to be released after those LEDs illuminate.

Hmm, well I think I'd take issue over that - I understood it just to be delineating the step at which you start pressing the backup button. Anyway.

vandermerwe wrote:
Do you have a backup?

Damned right I have! The alternative outcome would have been quite inconvenient and maybe a bit expensive, but I wouldn't have lost any data.

I will admit though that one thing I hadn't appreciated until this happened was that you can't simply take one of the disks in a RAID system and bung it in to a PC and access the data as normal. I bought my ReadyNAS as a means of keeping my data safer, ie protecting against a hard disk failure; so it does seem a bit ironic to me that the first time I have had a catastrophic failure since buying it three years ago, it's the chassis which let me down, and having a RAID system hasn't helped me one iota.

(Have to say though, that when I replaced one HDD in the ReadyNAS as a precautionary measure when it started clocking up bad sectors, it was a sheer delight to be able to pop the old drive out and just pop another one straight in!)