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RN104 crashed and stuck at "booting" or "Updating"[FW 6.2.2]
ReadyNAS RN104 – 5 months old, so now out of 90 day warranty 2x 3TB Seagate ST3000VN000 in XRAID2 mode. Though the 90 day phone/chat support has expired, there is an email support ticket (# 24562661...
The build quality is good, but of course anything can fail if pushed past the limits (for instance a power surge from a lightning strike). Personally I maintain 3 copies of everything (plus an additional backup with Crashplan). Perhaps overkill, but in my pre-NAS days I did have a couple cases where a hard drive failed, and then I discovered the backup had errors/unreadable sections. The three-copy policy has protected my data successfully for a long time now.
Same problem. RN104 stuck at: Updating FW
I was (sucessfully) running:
- the (modded by me) syslog server app (edit: goddamit, I didn't document my changes)
- PLEX (not the published version) (no loss)
- TimeMachine (no loss)
- Music/Video share (HUGE loss)
I have 4x 2TB RED drives Raided in there with irriplaceable data.
I really dont care about my (vast) movie collection - now I have discovered XBMC, however my issue is that I moved (not copied) all my music to it (from a number of different computers/nas's) - This was the actual reason for my purchasing the RN104 - for the large amount of drive space available for me to do this...
I was halfway through cleaning (sorting, deduping, deleting, getting album art etc) my collection, when the unit tanked. I will be very sad if I lose my data :( as there are many many hours/days/weeks of work in there. (I intended to back this up once sorted)...
I will try the raid-motherboard solution here to retrieve the data - before I do anything to the RN104 that might compromise my data!
Goddamit, this WAS intended to be my backup solution!
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