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RN214 Major Failure
Well, the day everyone fears seems to have hit me. I've been running my RN214 with two 4TB and two 6TB drives (slots 1-4 respectively) running in default X-RAID configuration. Today I noticed a huge ...
ranchracer wrote:
, so I tried swapping the drives in slots 1 and 2, still no joy so I swapped them back.
Did you do this with the system running?
ranchracer wrote:
Upon powering back up it is now showing all four drives as red and telling me there are no volumes configured so I'm unable to see ANY data on the system at this point.
The RAID array is out-of-sync - somewhere along the journey you ended up with lost writes to the array.
Options are to
- use a RAID recovery service. Netgear's is described here: https://kb.netgear.com/69/ReadyNAS-Data-Recovery-Diagnostics-Scope-of-Service
- use RAID recovery software that supports BTRFS. For instance ReclaiMe: https://www.reclaime.com/library/netgear-recovery.aspx
Thanks. Bought all the bits needed to connect the drives to the PC and give this a try.
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