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it_konst_van
Jan 12, 2022Follower
Volume PRIMMASS health changed from Degraded to Dead
Hello, Guys! I need your help or hints, please! Past system administrators who worked in the organization negligently treated the NetGear ReadyNAS 3220 (12x4TB, RAID 6) network storage. When I lo...
StephenB
Jan 12, 2022Guru - Experienced User
When you replace a disk, it is rebuilt from the remaining ones in the volume. If those disks can't be read (or if they otherwise fail during the resync), there can be data loss.
One option is to contract Netgear for data recovery. https://kb.netgear.com/69/ReadyNAS-Data-Recovery-Diagnostics-Scope-of-Service
You could also try powering down, and cloning the 4 remaining marginal disks to the new ones (using sector by sector cloning). Then put the new ones into the NAS, and try powering up (without disk 7 to begin with). There can still be data loss, but it is possible that the volume will mount, so it wouldn't be total.
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