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ReadyNAS nv+ won't power up after outage. Power Supply Problems?
Hello My ReadyNAS NV+ (Product: ReadyNASRND4000, Serial Number: 23J3027700C11) was originally purchased in November 2010. In June 2016 I had a problem with the power supply: The NAS wouldn't start u...
Yup. You can test that it turns on the supply with it disconnected before you do it with it connected. You'll know the supply came on because the fan will run.
If it works, you likely won't want to leave it that way, but it's a way to get the data off the NAS.
Thanks for replying! Actually I found a PSU in the UK (I'm in France) for around 65£, and it's made specifically for the NV+. When you say it's time to replace the NAS, are you saying it because you assume other components may be or may go bad, or just because PSUs are expensive? I looked around and it looks like I'd have to pay at least 350€ for a new one.
Lestrad wrote:
When you say it's time to replace the NAS, are you saying it because you assume other components may be or may go bad, or just because PSUs are expensive? I looked around and it looks like I'd have to pay at least 350€ for a new one.
It's an old NAS - so other components will fail at some point (and may have already failed along with the PSU). It's not fully compatible with Windows 10 (since it is limited to SMB 1.0) and that will become more of a bother over time. Plus it is slow by current standards.
It's true that a new NAS would cost quite a bit more than the PSU. But at some point you'll need to get a new one (since yours is 8 years old).
My own NV+ is about the same age - it is still in service as a secondary backup. It is on it's second PSU (which luckily failed right before the warranty was up). When it fails I'll just take it out of service.
Is there a specific model of ReadyNAS you'd recommend? One that could read my existing set of hard disks?
Lestrad wrote:
One that could read my existing set of hard disks?
Nothing can directly use your current disks. Paid support can mount them temporarily so you can off-load data. But they will charge. https://kb.netgear.com/29876/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-1-or-RAIDiator-5-3-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6
Lestrad wrote:
Is there a specific model of ReadyNAS you'd recommend?
It looks like you've been looking at the RN214, which is a reasonable choice. It will keep up with a gigabit network.
Higher-end OS-6 NAS have 5 year warranties - which partially offsets their higher costs. Personally I am using an RN526.
One option is to proceed with your PSU replacement, and then plan to get a new NAS a bit further out (perhaps next year). Then re-purpose the NV+ as a backup NAS. The risk is that something else might have failed (in which case the PSU would be a waste of money).
Thanks a lot for responding. As I mentioned, the unit started up and successfully synched all the disks and was fully accessible from Windows until it shut down. I don't know if it shut down cleanly as I'd programmed it to do or because of a PSU failure. So I tend to think it would be able to start up again and that the data structure is OK.
As for the disks, it seems to me (as a simple layman user) that one might expect some sort of backward compatibility from a company as serious as I am convinced Netgear is. No? Or else, isn't there a way to recover the data using a Linux PC and save it to a third location?
Thanks again for the help.
Les
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