I have an old readynas NV i came to use today and its not booting. no lights no nothing. not sure whats happened.....can anyone recommend some troubleshooting tips?
The most likely cause is the power supply. They do tend to last a long time, but your NAS is quite old. If you have a multi-meter, there is a 4-pin UART connection on the back (may be covered with a sticker). Check all the pins to chassis ground. If none have voltage, it's likely the supply.
Note that while the power connector looks like a standard 30-pin ATX, it is not. But you can make an adapter cable or modify the connector. The pin-put is attached to a reply in this message: Inexpensive-power-supply-replacement-for-legacy-4-bay-Readynases. Here is a nice how-to on using a standard Flex ATX supply: Readynas-NV-frugal-power-supply-replacement , but he failed to replace the -5V (white wire), which should also be done. Maybe his supply didn't have one.
Brilliant thank you I’ll have a look tomorrow at that. You are right it’s old but served me well. Time for an upgrade just need to get it working long enough to copy everything off it :).
If you have a spare ATX supply, or one you can "borrow" from a PC long enough, the adapter cable will allow you to power it long enough to download the contents. Just do your best to keep the airflow moving through the NAS, sealing the gap for the cable with masking tape.
If it turns out it's not the power supply, Netgear does have a way to use a new OS6 based NAS to recover the data, though they do charge you. The current problem is availability of the lower range NASes. I do not know if Netgear offers that support on a used unit.
Another option is to connect the disks to a PC and use R-Studio ( https://www.r-studio.com/ ). You can connect the disks with SATA, usb adapter/docks or a suitable USB enclosure.
When you do get running on a new NAS, I suggest putting a backup plan in place for it.
I do have a backup plan, but as usual never actually got round to implementing it.....it’s the usual problem never give it a second thought until it all goes wrong. Thanks for your help all I’ll let you know how it goes 🙂
Well I have it working that you all for the advice. It does however look like frankinstines monster lol. Does anyone need a nas for spares? I’ve bought a new so getting rid now
I have an NV+ that popped a PSU recently. I did not find this post until after, but I would like to comment that I did use a "standard" ATX 20pin PSU and it seemed to power up and run just fine.
Now I may have toasted something without realizing it, but I was able to peel almost 5TB of data off it without issue.........
I wil certainly modify my permanent replacement for the unit. Thank you for the pinout info.
