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RN214 internal power supply failure
Hi all, My second ReadyNAS (RN214) died recently after five years of always-on use. Same thing that killed my previous one - failure of the internal power supply. I've had some awful problems...
Recovery is now in progress, humming along the LAN to my new QNAP at a blistering 75MB/s, ish. Not sure if that speed limit is due to the resources I allocated to the VM (bridged adapter, 2 CPUs, and 2GB of RAM) or some other limitation happening on the network. But whatever, at least it's working! The VM recognized the raw drives instantly and booted just like real hardware would. Even reverted to my old login credentials.
Sandshark, I have 4 x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf Pros in RAID 5, for 20TB available space. I'd offer a minor tweak to the instructions that you posted:
1) Firstly, Windows users may encounter problems getting vboxmanage.exe to actually mount the raw drives, getting an ACCESS ERROR message (or something like that), as I did at first. This is likely due to a permissions problem with VboxSVC.exe - go into the Properties menu and set it to run as administrator. Run vboxmanage.exe and VirtualBox itself as admin, too. Once I did this it all worked smoothly.
2) Second, the createrawvmdk command has now been deprecated and VirtualBox recommends you don't use it. The new approved method for mounting a raw drive is:
VBoxManage.exe createmedium disk --filename nas1.vmdk --format=VMDK --variant RawDisk --property RawDrive=\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1
Thanks again for posting your initial guide - I likely wouldn't have my data back without it!
It is possible to mount the drives manually from Linux. So a live boot linux USB would be another option.
The issue that I've had with the data recovery software (ReclaiMe and Hetman) is that the files they've recovered are all corrupted in some way. All video files - either they don't play, or have bizarre issues like 4 hr lengths, jumbled up sound, etc) So I imagine mounting them in Linux might have the same issue? I figured my last-ditch effort would be to mount them in a ReadyNAS OS environment.
My RN214 is actually still within hardware warranty, so when Netgear support is available on Monday I'll see if they can replace or repair it. But otherwise I think the VM may be my last hope. (Unless some helpful local electronics shop can repair my power supply!)
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