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Lestrad
Jun 11, 2019Aspirant
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...
- Jul 09, 2019
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.
Lestrad
Jul 09, 2019Aspirant
I want to be sure I get this right: I need to stick a piece of wire into the PSU connector from behind while it's plugged into the pcb and short the green wire to a black wire?
Thanks once again for your help and patience.
Les
Sandshark
Jul 09, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
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.
- LestradJul 10, 2019Aspirant
Okay I jumped pins 14 and 15, and nothing happened. So it's time to write this one off, I guess. I may take it apart some more and see if any replaceable component looks obviously blown.
OR, since I feel that recycling is important in this day and age, I'm tempted to try to make a DIY NAS that would re-use the backplane (and I suppose I'd have to somehow use the SATA port multiplier on the mainboard, for which I have the spec sheet) and use my Wandboard Quad (which has a single SATA port) as the brain. What do you think of the idea?
In any case I'd need help. Should I maybe post the idea as a new thread? Possibly on some other forum? ;-)
Thanks yet again for all your help!
Les
- SandsharkJul 11, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
Honestly, I applaud our desire to try and repair it or re-use some of it as a do-it-yourself project, but I think it's a lost cause, I'm an engineer and wouldn't try it without a schematic. I doubt vey much there is a port multiplier on the board, though I've not looked.
Your NAS had a good run. I recommend you retire it and buy a replacment. I've stuck with Netgear products because of familiarity and the helpfullness of the community. But if I ran a lot of apps, or wanted to, I would likely have looked elsewhere.
- LestradJul 11, 2019Aspirant
Sandshark wrote:...I doubt vey much there is a port multiplier on the board....
Well, according to this page there is. (I realize that the pictures are of the NV+ V2 board.) It has a link to a product sheet on the port multiplier.
So far I haven't found a schematic of the NV+ board. Surely there must be one out there...
There's a site that shows a project that does what I want to do using a Raspberry Pi and which uses a USB hub and USB-to-SATA adaptors to connect the four HDDs. I'm looking at that now. Seems questionable. But then the Pi has no SATA connector, whereas the Wandboard does. And the NV+ has the multi-SATA backplane and presumably a port multiplier chip. Of course, I'd need a schematic and help to make them available to the Wandboard. I'd need to fire somebody's interest in the idea...
- SandsharkJul 11, 2019Sensei - Experienced User
Netgear has not published any ReadyNAS schematics, so anything you find would have to be reverse engineered.
The NV+ V2 is a Netgear design, where the NV+ is old Infrant. They are very different designs.
Even if the NV+ has a port multiplier, it probably has a 2TB limit per drive. Otherwise, I think Infrant/Netgear would have put out a version of the OS that supported >2TB drives.
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