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Unable to access data from ReadyNas
Hello .. need urgent help.. i moved my Ready NAS from office to home during lockdown and it had been disconnected for a while. Few days ago when i tried to connect it to my home network, it won't sho...
The WD40PURZ is CMR, so that particular issue isn't a concern.
However, I still recommend testing them in a PC - even new drives can fail, and I have had some new drives fail out-of-the-box. Personally I run the full non-destructive read test, and follow that with a full erase/write zeros test.
hi, sorry for being ignorant, i guess you mean run full diagnostics using WD lifeguard, is that correct
Atul_marwaha wrote:
hi, sorry for being ignorant, i guess you mean run full diagnostics using WD lifeguard, is that correct
Correct. The two tests I am recommending are the "Extended Test" followed by "ERASE" When you run ERASE there will be an option to run a full erase - which writes zeros to every sector on the drive. That's the option I am recommending there.
The drive won't appear in File Manager because it uses a format that Windows can't handle.
uhm, but he said that he needs to access the data? In which case it's not a good idea to erase...
NAS not showing up with either drive insert seems odd, do you know if this was a RAID0 array?
Danthelf wrote:
uhm, but he said that he needs to access the data? In which case it's not a good idea to erase...
Good catch. Atul_marwaha: don't run the erase test if you have data you need to offload.
Danthelf wrote:
NAS not showing up with either drive insert seems odd, do you know if this was a RAID0 array?
The NAS would still boot if it was a RAID0 volume, since the OS is RAID-1. The volume would be inactive but the NAS would show up in RAIDar.
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