Hi everyone ...
First : thanks to the admin to have granted me access to this forum despite my gmail address ;-)
The all story :
- 1 5Big Network 2 since 2015
- 2017 : all my 3To Seagate ST3000 DM001 HDD crashed one by one from january to august ... each crash => about 30 hours to reconstruct the RAID5 array
- the last crash made me configure the unit in RAID "auto" to allow 2 HDD fails before losing the datas
- since that, I only switch on my 5Big when I need to (monthly backup or watching 1 or 2 films for week-end)
- all fine until last month where one HDD crashes :-( ... I evaluate the NAS has been switched on 6 months these 4 last years so I think it's a very short lifetime for a NAS ... anyway
- I reconstruct the RAID and tell me it's time to buy new spare HDD :-(
- Good idea, a second HDD fails one week later :-(
But this time, after the insertion of a new HDD, the NAS doesn't boot.
Worse ... a bad smell comes from the NAS ... I took apart the NAS and discovered that a condensator melted (the 1F for the RAM I suppose) ...
I soldered a new one but nothing changed. I think the Lacie design makes its product to overheat ... The 30 hours of RAID reconstruction must have been fatal for the all unit ... :-(
At startup, the blue light flashes (I waited 3 days in case the RAID was in reconstruction), Lacie Network Assistant doesn't see the NAS.
A direct access to the IP address shows that the NAS is currently booting ...
I found on eBay a used 5Big Network 2 (sold because HDD fail ... same story) ... and same problem ... no boot :-(
I plan to execute the "reset to factory settings without data loss" when I will have a new NAS (not a Lacie ;-) )
But ... if this reset doesn't work ... ou before I try this reset procedure ... do you think the fvdw firmware could be of any help to recover my datas ?
I'm afraid that the failed HDD could be a problem
Any help or point of view welcome :-)