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Maxtor Shared Storage NAS 300 GB Summary of long adventure: TL;DR. ONE DISK IS NOT AN OPTION FOR A NAS - Audience : advanced users - linux skill required : yes - strong opinion : yes - frustration : yes It looks so nice in the picture : storing data on a NAS, not on the local system. You can access it from anywhere in the network, all is fine. Until.. The NAS breaks down and you forgot the backups.. I had this NAS for a long time (several years), somewhere safe in the house, in a dry and protected and cool place, nobody would be able to find it, a digital safe, connected to my local network. It seems a smart idea, but it really was not. Here is my summary of trouble to get my data back. 1) The NAS did not appear in my network anymore 2) Checked power supply, switches, cables 3) conclusion, NAS is bad 4) reboot, does not come online again 5) open it up, take out harddisk, how hard can it be? Right? I connected the disk to my machine with one of those PATA/...

A few days someone gave me a TS 201 RAID NAS made by Qnap to fix. http://www.qnap.com/useng/?sn=862&c=1697&sc=1698&t=1701&n=6731 It was very bad, the power light did not come on, it just pulsed a bit. The external power supply was broken, the capacitors 16V/1000uF swollen up. 12 Volt 5 Amps standard PSU, I had a spare so that was easily fixed. Trouble was not over, the device did not work. It beeped, lights were blinking, ugly noise from disk. Connecting to NAS did not go easily, I found the IP address by using NMAP (I assumed it was using DHCP) $ nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 .. some known machines.. and Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.217 Host is up (0.00034s latency). Connect to the thing using a web browser did not work. type in :http://192.168.1.217/ click 'administration' That redirected to a webserver on port 6000 why? New rules in Chrome and Firefox, blocking ports including 6000. I got something like this very descriptive message : ...