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Aspirant

Nov 02, 2016

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Probably power supply issue

I've read through a number of issues with the power supply failing on various models. I suspect that's what I have. My unit (ReadyNASRND4000) has been running fine for a number of years (5 according ...

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MrBadger
Nov 20, 2016
Finally getting back to this. Disassembled the unit today. The back of the unit says ReadyNAS RND4000 v3. The PSU is internal (or was, it's external now since I disassembled it! :) ) After much casting about I've ordered a replacement PSU from Evercase in the UK: http://www.evercase.co.uk/PowerSupplyUnits.htm#ReadyNASPSU. $100 with shipping but the data is priceless. Assuming this works I'll be dumping everything to ... something... and then looking for a new (and faster) unit. Unless NetGear does something about the backward compatibility with disks in its newer units I'll be looking elsewhere. So please tell me that moving forward I can be assured of pulling disks from a unit and having them work in a newer unit (yeah, yeah, within reason of course - but there's no reason that my 5 year old 2T drive should not be supported.) So, enough bitching and whining. When the new PSU arrives I'll update with what happened.

FramerV

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Nov 20, 2016

Hi MrBadger,

Please keep us updated about your progress.

Regards,

MrBadger

Aspirant

Nov 28, 2016

So... the new power supply came in over the Thanksgiving holiday, I got it installed, restared the system which booted immediately. Once I saw that it was working I reinserted my disks and up it came. I'm dumping all the data to external storage right now. I'm looking at getting a unite that's fast enough to act as a media server and use this one as the backup unit. But for now, data is safe and lesson learned at minimal cost in blood and treasure. :) A success story.

JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 29, 2016
Hello MrBadger,

We are glad to see that you were able to get this resolved.

Please feel free to post any suggestions, comments and questions. We appreciate your contribution to the community!

Regards,
JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 29, 2016
Hello MrBadger,

We are glad to see that you were able to get this resolved.

Please feel free to post any suggestions, comments and questions. We appreciate your contribution to the community!

Regards,