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Readynas ultra 6 won't go past readynas screen
Ho all, after many years I've decided to tackle my readymas issue. I had an issue with it 3 years back and paid a tech to look at it, he said 2 drives had collapsed and replaced them. It worked again...
We tried to access the boot menu, it won't go past the readynas screen. We did as mentioned in paperwork and held in the reset button and nothing past readynas screen.
Took all drives out and tested, it comes up with no drives, so assume its working still.
It could certainly be one or more of the drives, but you can't rule out the NAS power supply at this point.
It'd be helpful to know exactly what drives are installed. Perhaps post pictures of the labels on them?
If your kids can try connecting the drives (one at a time) to a Windows PC, they could run vendor diags to check them. They'd likely need a USB adapter/dock to do that.
Make sure the NAS is powered down when you remove and reinsert the drives.
Thanks! They do have a usb dock and currently checking drives. So far looks like two are possibly faulty.
They tried running disc management and it wouldn't show, so they are investigating further. I was running it in raid, I cant recall which ibe, I think it was raid 5. Not sure if that's causing the running up issue.
Top one i have 4 of the top photo, 1 of the second and 1 WD.
WDis running up. 2 of the Seagate's are running up...
the refurbished one and 2 of the top ones are not.
The kids say one is certainly gone as it clicks then shuts down. Another is clicking but not shutting down, but not running up. Third is just spinning but not running up.
The other two they aren't 100 % sure as they say there may be other reasons.
It's odd as I bought it with all WD NAS drives.... but they aren't there now.
Now I'm lost as to what to do, as I'm pretty sure if its more than 2 drives gone my data is lost? I cant recall what raid I ran though, if it was mirror or stripped. We cant read data though.
Now I'm lost as to what to do, as I'm pretty sure if its more than 2 drives gone my data is lost? I cant recall what raid I ran though, if it was mirror or stripped. We cant read data though.
The normal setup is XRAID - RAID-5 in your case, so it would be striped. It's possible you have RAID-6 (dual redundancy).
If more than two disks have failed, then unfortunately the data is lost - a data recovery service might be able to get some back, but it would be expensive.
But let's see how the tests go. They can use Seatools for the four Seagate disks, and the WD drive utilities package for the two WD Red drives.
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