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ReadyNAS RND4000 NIC failure can I recover data
I have an old RND4000 with 4 drives in it (3 RND4000's actually). The PS died on one of them and the NIC died on another. I moved the PS to teh one with the good NIC, so I have 1 fixed OK, but now ...
Levisvv wrote:
If I moved the 4 drives to a newer model, will it be able to detect the RAID configuration & recover so I do not lose what is on these drives?
No. So if you want to move the data to a new model, you'll need to off-load it to other storage.
Tech support could mount the array temporarily if you get an OS-6 NAS, but I believe they would charge. Then you'd need to offload the data, and set up the new NAS (which uses different firmware and a different file system). https://kb.netgear.com/29876/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-1-or-RAIDiator-5-3-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6
If you can connect the drives to a PC (using a USB adapter/dock) you could also use RAID recovery software to access the data. For instance, R-studio. https://www.r-studio.com/
Levisvv wrote:
The PS died on one of them and the NIC died on another.
Why not just power down one of the working NAS, and temporarily move the drives to it (maintaining the slot order)? Then just power up the working NAS. The configuration is on the disks. The only caveat here is that if the firmware is different on the three NAS, then the boot process will attempt to install whatever firmware is in the flash onto the drives. So if there's a chance that the NAS have different firmware versions, you'd need to update the firmware to the newest version (4.1.16).
I suggest labeling the drives as you remove them, just to make sure you don't mix anything up.
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