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Old ReadyNAS 212 won't boot up
So, many, MANY, years ago, my workplace merged with another company, and as part of that merger, I took over their IT system, which consisted of a few peer-to-peer PCs and a central storage system consisting of two ReadyNAS devices, one primary and one backup. Some time later, the backup NAS failed. Rather than fix or replace it, I opted to move to a cloud storage backup system instead, and the old unit was shelved. Fast forward to the modern day, amid a bunch of other IT problems cropping up (mainly, the current state of Microsoft OneDrive causing a cascade of problems with the cloud backup), the question of the the longevity of our current NAS device was raised. By my best estimation, that NAS has been going strong for upwards of 11 years now, and while it's performance has been incredible, it's at a point where it could fail at any moment. As part of the disaster recovery planning, the decision was made to try to refurbish the old backup NAS, just in case an immediate replacement is necessary before a full replacement can be purchased and implmented. That brings me to my current issue. The old NAS is able to power up, but then all the lights go out and it doesn't load anything. I have probed the Hard Drives on my PC, and while I haven't been able to access the files directly, the disks themselves seem to be fully functional. Most worryingly, attempting to access the Boot Menu with the reset button has failed entirely. Any advice of how I can get this old thing functional again? Preserving the data doesn't matter, they're just outdated backups, I just need to get the NAS Enclosure itself functional and active.Failing ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus
I noticed one morning my NAS had powered down and couldn't turn it back on. After turning the power off to it completely and waiting a couple of minutes, it turned back on. Strangely it then turns off by itself sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after 15 minutes. I've taken the PSU out and tested the voltage outputs on the pins and it seems ok. I'm going to get a spare PSU and modify the pins to see if it works any better. In the meantime does anyone have suspicions as to what's failing on the NAS? When I look at the logs after each reboot (if I can get that far) there's nothing indicating the reason why it shutdown. Temps look fine also. Additionally, since I can't get a hold of a spare chassis (none on eBay), how do I get data off the disks? They're working fine. Do I need to connect all 4 drives into a PC and then get the data? I'd prefer to use Windows and hear ReclaiMe works?RN104: ghost “NG-8TB-Seagate” volume (RAID unknown) Inactive/Unprotected
I have a ReadyNAS RN104 that’s working fine from the data point of view, but the volume configuration seems corrupted and is generating constant volume health alerts that I cannot clear. I’m hoping someone familiar with the ReadyNAS OS 6 config DB can advise on a safe way to remove the ghost volume entries without wiping any data. Hardware / firmware: • Model: RN104 • OS version: 6.10.10 • Disks: • sda: 2 TB (NG-WDRED-2TB-1) • sdb: 6 TB (NG-WDRP-6TB-1) • sdc: 3 TB (NG-WDRED-3TB-2) • sdd: 8 TB (NG-8TB-Seagate) – recently replaced a failed 3 TB Symptom: In the web UI → System → Volumes I see 6 volumes even though I only have 4 disks. The top four are green JBOD volumes with data and look healthy: • NG-8TB-Seagate (JBOD, ~7.27 TB, ~2.64 TB used) • NG-WDRED-3TB-2 (JBOD, ~2.72 TB, ~1.17 TB used) • NG-WDRP-6TB-1 (JBOD, ~5.45 TB, ~4.28 TB used) • NG-WDRED-2TB-1 (JBOD, ~1.81 TB, ~0.2 TB used) Below those, there are two blue entries with 0 data and “RAID unknown”: • NG-WDRED-3TB-1 (0 data, 0 free, RAID unknown) • NG-8TB-Seagate (0 data, 0 free, RAID unknown)Netgear Readynas NVX (Buisness)
I just bought the device for 30 euros and have managed to install the latest official firmware (4.2.31) with Root SSH and fixed the TLS issue. Now I am wondering moving onto flashing something more modern, like Alpine Linux x86. I was wondering if this is possible, advisable and what issues might arise. I have ordered a UART TTL to USB adapter and ask if I would need anything else for this. I appreciate all kinds of feedback. Thanks in advancedAntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I know that the internet connection is OK because Transmission BitTorrent client is working OK. SSHing in and trying "freshclam" does not work either: I get "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.103.7 Recommended version: 1.0.9" On the ClamAV website it says for v0.103 LTS, "DB downloads allowed until Sep-14 2025", so that is the likely cause: https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html Does anyone has a solution for this please? Either a way to update ClamAV on an ARM device or to fool ClamAV into still providing database updates? My RN214 is running ReadyNAS OS v6.10.9 - will "upgrading" to 6.10.10 help to resolve this? From the latter's release notes I suspect not. TIA Paul