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Eredar
Nov 27, 2025Aspirant
ReadyNAS RN4220 wont boot up after shutdown from WebUI
Hello to anybody who can help, I got a ReadyNAS RN4220 out of eWaste from some company, and it worked perfectly! I have 100tb of NAS HDD storage in it and it has run fine for over a year now. ...
StephenB
Nov 27, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Eredar wrote:I heard you can just swap drives between READYNAS products and they should work fine yeah?
Between some ReadyNAS models. In this case, you'd need another OS-6 Rackmount. There aren't any desktop models with 12 bays.
Eredar wrote:I just am so confused why a simple reboot (done through the web UI!!!) would cause it to never boot up again
It sounds like a component failed on power-up, and that the NAS isn't passing POST.
I'm tagging Sandshark - he has a lot of experience with the rack mount systems (my own are all desktop models).
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