Best hardware solution to help a crashed ReadyNASRND4000
Hi!
Here's the background info on my problem:
I own a ReadyNAS RND4000v3 (so the lable says) as I use as the family file server. It has worked like a charm for almost seven years. Some days ago, our power company alerted us of a planned power outage and so I shut my NAS down before going to work. When I got back home, my NAS was dead as a doornail. It doesn't respond to anything in any way. I suspect that there was a spike in the electric grid when the power came back on that fried the power unit in the NAS.
Now to my question: I'm certain my four disks, that was configured as RAID5 (four disks with redundancy) are all ok. Since the NAS unit is old I guess there's no way for me to get service on the unit itself, so I wonder: Is there any other way for me to purchase a more modern unit and install and use the same disks, almost like nothing ever happened? I use high end Maxtor Server classed disks with 10 year warranty so I wouldn't want to waste them (not to mention that I want access to the data on them).
Can anyone here help me out and/or give me advice on how to proceed?
Model: ReadyNAS RND4000v2|ReadyNAS NV+ v2 Chassis only
Re: Best hardware solution to help a crashed ReadyNASRND4000
You have an NV+ v1 platform (a sparc based NAS). The "v3' in the label means it was the third hardware revision of the v1.
You have a couple of options:
if you can connect all four disks to a PC, you can boot up the PC under linux and mount the data volume manually. That would let you off-load the data.
You can try replacing the PSU in the NAS. There are some off-the-shelf PSUs that will fit, but they will need some modification to the pinout. Post back if you are interested in trying this.
