After a little bit less than 4 years of services, my brave little NV+ seems to have died during this week's holliday (went back home, found it off, no warning/status email, no way to power it on again : no LED, no fan, nothing).
Maybe it's just the PSU (with the tempest we had this week, maybe the power did some weird things), but maybe it's the MB. I don't have any way to confirm it, and it would probably be cheaper to change the whole system anyway.
However, NV+ can only be found used and are still quite expensive (at least half the price of a naked 104). I found this kind of pricetag pretty high for something which could possibly blew up the same way in a few months. More to the point, I'm already using ~80% of my 4x 2To disks in X-Raid.
Could be interesting to move to a newer chassis then. Probably a 104, as the 314 is a little bit on the expensive side as for now. However, before placing this kind of purchase (especially right after Christmas), I would like to be sure of something : if I take out my disks from the NV+ and plug them in a newer chassis (like a 104), will I be able to recover all my data, or will the disks be formatted ?
Looks like the data recover using a PC isn't a sure thing - seems that some people don't succeed at it. Anyway, could only hope to salvage the most critical data, as I don't have anything with 4-5 TB of free space to recover everything.
As my NV+ is still under warranty (thanks Netgear for the 5-years Warranty !), I'll try to get the NV+ working again (and then to backup the said critical data). Support sent me a new PSU and I swapped it, but the NV+ still don't boot : when I press the power, the fan don't start and I have a LED error message I wasn't able to find out on the charts. The disk 1 LED blink 3 times, then all LEDs (disks, activity and power) flashes quickly and simultaneously 3 times, then cycle back to disk 1 LED. Power button have no effect, I have to unplug it.
It might be corrupt root. Have you tried using RAIDar to see the status?
If you have a scratch disk, you could also try removing your existing drives (label them by slot) and see if powering up with just the scratch disk does the normal install.
