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ReadyNas NV Pre Netgear No Boot
This device has worked fine for years. This morning I realized it wouldn't let me access the drives. I hard power cycled the device. The device appears to boot but the blue LED pulses (not fa...
MWestfall wrote: hey mdgm, the point of raid is kind of to not need to backup
The point of RAID is to provide redundancy/high-availability. If a single disk fails, data remains intact. This doesn't negate the need for a backup at all as there are a number of problems that RAID can't protect you against. See Preventing Catastrophic Data Loss
MWestfall wrote:
but yes we do have a recent backup.
Good.
MWestfall wrote:
the smart data is 100% clean on the disk, not a single write error on any of them.
So? Testing the disks using WD LifeGuard diagnostics is more thorough. You could still have a bad disk.
You may also wish to run the memory test: http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/hardware/is_there_a_way_i_can_verify_if_my_memory_is_good
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