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Recovery after power supply failure
Hello forum --- I had a ReadyNAS RND4000 which experienced "the power supply problem". It had two 2TB drives, so 2TB of dual-redundant storage total. Netgear tech support promptly got me a new chas...
Normally in this situation you would have simply re-installed both of the original drives in their original slots with the NAS powered down, and then powered it up. You wouldn't hot-insert the drives, as that would wipe them.
One poster here accidentally got a V2 chassis from Netgear in exchange for a V1. You should probably make sure you got the same model, as the disk formats are different for different platform types.
Assuming the platform is the same-
If you don't want to put the old slot-1 drive in the NAS, you could try cloning it to the new drive on a PC first (using sector by sector copying, since the PC won't recognize the format).
Alternatively, you could take the plunge - powering down the NAS, inserting the original drive 1 in slot 1 (by itself, no other drives!). Then start up the NAS - and when it boots, then hot-add the new drive to slot 2.
If you follow the forum, you'll frequently see the "RAID is not a substitute for backup" mantra. It isn't, your data is always at risk if it is only stored on a single device. So I'd suggest putting a backup strategy in place. Perhaps you can install one of your 2 TB drives in a PC, and dedicate it to NV+ backup.
One poster here accidentally got a V2 chassis from Netgear in exchange for a V1. You should probably make sure you got the same model, as the disk formats are different for different platform types.
Assuming the platform is the same-
If you don't want to put the old slot-1 drive in the NAS, you could try cloning it to the new drive on a PC first (using sector by sector copying, since the PC won't recognize the format).
Alternatively, you could take the plunge - powering down the NAS, inserting the original drive 1 in slot 1 (by itself, no other drives!). Then start up the NAS - and when it boots, then hot-add the new drive to slot 2.
If you follow the forum, you'll frequently see the "RAID is not a substitute for backup" mantra. It isn't, your data is always at risk if it is only stored on a single device. So I'd suggest putting a backup strategy in place. Perhaps you can install one of your 2 TB drives in a PC, and dedicate it to NV+ backup.
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