Readynas rnd2000 v2 firmware upgrade

[RobertD]

After a recent power failure (despie being on UPS)  my ReadyNAS no longer works.

Both green drive leds are lit & the working(CPU..?) led flashes occasionally.

The Blue power led gives 4 slow flashes.

Raidiar shows - File System Check. and stays that way for hours.

Pressing the power switch has no effect.

I have read numerous posts & connected direct setting the PC to static IP 192.168.168.5

I have reinstalled OS - by holding reset & powering up until 1st flash of drive leds.

Still no fix.

Any assistance gratefully received..!!

Rob

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

That disk has failed very badly. With that high an error count presumably there would have been some SMART errors occurring for quite some time.

Replacing that disk with a new disk would certainly be worth a try.

Do you have a backup? Is that up to date?

[mdgm-ntgr]

Are you sure you have a v2? Your profile shows that you bought a v1 just over 5 years ago now.

Please see How to tell whether I have a Duo v1 or Duo v2 or NV+ v1 or NV+ v2

Do you have a backup?

[RobertD]

Mine is definately a Version 1.....

but the model number sticker shows RND2000 v2

(I did try to make that plain in the post, but I had to try several times...seems the final post that eventually went was missing that bit)

[mdgm-ntgr]

One of your disks (probably disk 1) is bad

It has a current pending sector count of 24 and an ATA error count of 18970

[RobertD]

Have to admit - that doesnt mean much to me.

So if I replace that disk - it should fix the problem..??

I thought running raid - it would function with one disk down..??

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

That disk has failed very badly. With that high an error count presumably there would have been some SMART errors occurring for quite some time.

Replacing that disk with a new disk would certainly be worth a try.

Do you have a backup? Is that up to date?

[RobertD]

No, I have no backups.

The whole idea of having the Raid server was to provide safe (backedup in the array) storage.

[RobertD]

Thank you for your help so far - I will drive down to town today16th Feb & get another Hard Drive.

That will mean I wont be back until later on 17th Feb.

Will let you know how it goes..

[mdgm-ntgr]

I understand that after replacing the bad disk the system is now working fine and you are proceeding to do a backup. It's advisable to backup your data regularly. RAID provides redundancy and is very useful, but it's not a replacement for backing up your data. Don't store important data on just the one device, no matter what that device is.