Just wondering who else has had these,
If you don't want to read, just post any computer-tech problems that you've nearly had but managed to fix somehow without too much trouble,
Basically I've got a NAS (network attached storage) drive at home that holds around 400 gb of data across a raid array (not mirrored). Mid day saturday I was sitting at the computer and noticed the light on the device go off, curious I thought.
I tried to turn it back on and all I got was a quick 0.5seconds of the power light going on and then nothing else...bugger. I hadn't recently backed up my music, tv shows and other stuff... in a long time.
Before trying to solve the problem I wanted check what my backup status was...upon inspecting my two external drives I got the nasty shock both were blank....it was at this point I was getting a tad worried.
So...I took apart the device, gave it a bit of clean, checked the power supply, all seemed good, plugged it back in, same problem.
Then I swapped out both of the drives out and hey presto, it powered up. Put one drive in, still working, put the second drive in and the problem returned. Took out the first drive and left the second one in, still the same problem, tried different sata ports, same issue.
So...I was faced with problem that one of my drives was somehow causing the device not to boot, bad control board maybe...either way I thought I was buggered. It was at this point I went over and opened my bottle of glenmorangie and took a swig, it was 3pm.
Bit of searching online found out that it was a relatively easy fix of replacing the board but getting the right one was very important, hhmm...
I was then curious as to whether the NAS was maybe playing up, (it has been known to) and whether my desktop motherboard would have some luck with the hard drive. So I stuck the drive in my desktop, powered up with the drive in hand, felt it spinning up, looking good....looked in the bios and the drive was correctly identified and working.
So tried with both drives back in the NAS and it powered up and everything was good...
Sunday was spent backing up everything
What caused the problem I don't know, there are no weird noises coming from the drive, why it wouldn't work in the NAS and took my desktop to kick it into life I don't know.
But the end result was, after 2-3 hours of getting rather stressed, a major issue of losing 400gb (5-6 years of collected stuff) was adverted.
If you don't want to read, just post any computer-tech problems that you've nearly had but managed to fix somehow without too much trouble,
Basically I've got a NAS (network attached storage) drive at home that holds around 400 gb of data across a raid array (not mirrored). Mid day saturday I was sitting at the computer and noticed the light on the device go off, curious I thought.
I tried to turn it back on and all I got was a quick 0.5seconds of the power light going on and then nothing else...bugger. I hadn't recently backed up my music, tv shows and other stuff... in a long time.
Before trying to solve the problem I wanted check what my backup status was...upon inspecting my two external drives I got the nasty shock both were blank....it was at this point I was getting a tad worried.
So...I took apart the device, gave it a bit of clean, checked the power supply, all seemed good, plugged it back in, same problem.
Then I swapped out both of the drives out and hey presto, it powered up. Put one drive in, still working, put the second drive in and the problem returned. Took out the first drive and left the second one in, still the same problem, tried different sata ports, same issue.
So...I was faced with problem that one of my drives was somehow causing the device not to boot, bad control board maybe...either way I thought I was buggered. It was at this point I went over and opened my bottle of glenmorangie and took a swig, it was 3pm.
Bit of searching online found out that it was a relatively easy fix of replacing the board but getting the right one was very important, hhmm...
I was then curious as to whether the NAS was maybe playing up, (it has been known to) and whether my desktop motherboard would have some luck with the hard drive. So I stuck the drive in my desktop, powered up with the drive in hand, felt it spinning up, looking good....looked in the bios and the drive was correctly identified and working.
So tried with both drives back in the NAS and it powered up and everything was good...
Sunday was spent backing up everything
What caused the problem I don't know, there are no weird noises coming from the drive, why it wouldn't work in the NAS and took my desktop to kick it into life I don't know.
But the end result was, after 2-3 hours of getting rather stressed, a major issue of losing 400gb (5-6 years of collected stuff) was adverted.
