Hi,
I have a Terastation live which has worked well at home for the last few years. I upgraded the origina 250Gb drives to 1Tb ones as I ran out of space. I'm running firmware 214-1.02 with Raid 5. I have circa 2.7Tb of file archives on this box. Most of this data is my second or third copy eg camera pics and office docs but around a quarter of it is my only copy eg downloaded media. Yes I know thats wrong, but this was bought to be my reliable RAID protected storage box. You live and learn.
Once every year or so we get a power outage which doesn't affect any other piece of electrical equipment in the house apart from the terastation. this has always given me the E04 error to which I duly reload the firmware and then the system is back with all my data as though nothing has happened.
We had a power blip a few days ago and this time I have an E22 error saying it cannot read my disks. The Gui is showing that the drives are unformatted. I have tried to follow the how to debrick your terastation tutorials and how to force your firmware to no avail. Right clicking on the tsupdater taskbar doesn't give me a debug option. I cannot get it to accept the same firmware under EM mode either. I have amended the lines in tsupdater.ini but this doesn't work. My version of tsupdater appears to be version 1.0.0.
Can anyone please advise me what my options are? Is it salvage-able? At the minute I'm thinking of ripping the drives from the TS, purchasing appropriate hardware to mount them onto a desktop PC then using linux or another program I've read about somewhere to retrieve the data from them onto some new storage, either another NAS box (says quietly - the LG N2B1 looks interesting) or onto a dedicated storage server (whichever is cheaper!). I can then flatten the terastation and re-use it as a second copy of another NAS box.
Can anyone also recommend a suitable UPS that they have experience of working with the TS so that if I can recover the data and choose to throw it back at it then at least I'll know its safe the next time we have a power blip.
Many thanks.
James