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bnor82
Nov 25, 2014Aspirant
Unable to retrieve data from ReadyNAS Duo
Hi All, I had a ReadyNAS duo which has, for want of better words, "blown up" on me! I am trying to recover the data off the drive with little success despite vast amounts of reading on this forum,...
mdgm-ntgr
Nov 26, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
The second disk is not blank. With X-RAID on Sparc, the second disk is the dedicated parity disk. It does not have the partition table on it, so your PC thinks it is blank when it really isn't.
Newer models use distributed parity.
Newer models use distributed parity.
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