Synology DS1817+ Has Died....?

demon8991

demon8991

demon8991

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Hello All,

Yesterday I replaced and added a larger drive to my Synology and started the repair volume to expand the usable space.

I woke up this morning (after it getting 40% through yesterday) to find out the NAS was offline and flashing orange on alert and blue on power.

I removed all disks and tried to turn the NAS on however it has not worked, Synology reckon the motherboard has died.

Looks like I am going to have to replace the NAS as I am out of warranty.

What are the chances my data survived?
 
It should be fine even if it were part way through the rebuild process, if you pop the disks in a replacement Synology unit it should pick up the data and start off the repair process again. Under no circumstances put the disks in anything else. If the Synology process fails there are other (more complex) options available such as a rebuild using Ubuntu.
 
Wow, you have actually filled me with some hope. I have definitely be fearing the worst.

I have 50TB of data (the important stuff is backed up around 1TB worth) so it’s good to know I should be ok.

I plan to pick up a Synology DS1821+ this week and will drop the drives in that in the same order and see what happens.
 
It’s also worth posting on their forums to see if there’s a way of fixing your current NAS prior to ordering a new one.
 
Well, good news.

Bought a DS1821+ and moved the disks over, it finished its parity check and then expanded into the new space.

No data appears to be lost and all settings and apps are as they were very happy.

I didn't really have time to spend going through solutions or repair options for the old unit so I may look at repairing it over the next month or so and set it up as an extra backup unit.
 
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