My NAS drive died

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SteveH

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Hi All,
After 3 years heavy use, today a power cut killed my 2-bay NAS drive. I *think* the two disks inside are ok as they were idle and not even spinning at the time. I have ordered another unit, so when it arrives, fingers crossed my drives aren't corrupt! All my data is on one drive, the second is just a backup of the first (Daily backup, not RAID) so even if one is dead hopefully the second replica will be OK.

If anyone by chance has a DLINK DNS-320L, do you happen to know if you can create new volumes without formatting? I'm hoping I can drop my drives in and set each as a volume without it assuming that I want it wiping! I think to be safe, I will do one drive at a time though....
 
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RocketCowboy

Senior Member
I don't have hands on knowledge with the DLINK, but my assumption is creating new volumes equates to partitioning the drive ... i.e. the drive gets erased. I wouldn't go that step without first trying to find another way to get the data off those drives.
 
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MartinCornwall

Senior Member
Hi Steve can't comment on your NAS and hope all goes well with it, but it's not really BACKUP it's redundancy. The only way to go is what you have that has died and an off site HDD in another location ie neighbor work place that you can keep offsite for the bad times like this. Hope you get your data back with the new unit though. Data recovery from drives can be a pain ...
 
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SteveH

Senior Member
Thanks all - I do have an offsite copy which I update weekly in the form of a USB drive locked in my office at work - restoring from that would take while but could be the best plan. The new version of the NAS drive has Google drive sync'ing so I may go with that from now on.
 
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