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Title: Data format of LS-X3.0TL
Post by: Jeff Peterman on September 21, 2015, 02:27:39 PM

My NAS has become flaky, with intermittent connection on the network. It appears to be an interface problem. I would like to know if the data on the internal drive are in a standard format - can I just removed the drive from the NAS shell, plug it into an SATA adapter on my PC and access all the data? This would let me safely copy of the drive contents, which I can't do with the NAS.

Title: Re: Data format of LS-X3.0TL
Post by: RevertAV on September 22, 2015, 08:21:08 AM

I too would like to know the answer to this question. I recently performed a firmware update on this same unit and the unit never came back online. Thus far Buffalo support is telling me to get lost due to not being under warranty.

Title: Re: Data format of LS-X3.0TL
Post by: Jeff Peterman on September 24, 2015, 05:26:58 PM

I have a partial solution. I found some software (Raise Data Recovery for XFS, from sysdevsoftware.com) that can read the data and let me copy what I need to another drive. Just one problem: the physical hard drive must be directly connected to the computer. I opened the case of my Buffalo drive, pulled out the hard drive and connected it to my PC with a USB3 to SATA adapter. I then downloaded the trial version of the software and confirmed that it would see the drive and the files on the drive. After that, I paid $25 for a license and was able to copy all the data from the Buffalo hard disk to my PC.

My new NAS (from Seagate) should arrive tomorrow and then I'll copy the contents from my internal drive to the new NAS. Once I have confirmed that everything looks good, I'll delete the restored files from my desktop hard drive.

Title: Re: Data format of LS-X3.0TL
Post by: RevertAV on September 25, 2015, 07:16:25 AM

Quote from: Jeff Peterman on September 24, 2015, 05:26:58 PM
I have a partial solution. I found some software (Raise Data Recovery for XFS, from sysdevsoftware.com) that can read the data and let me copy what I need to another drive. Just one problem: the physical hard drive must be directly connected to the computer. I opened the case of my Buffalo drive, pulled out the hard drive and connected it to my PC with a USB3 to SATA adapter. I then downloaded the trial version of the software and confirmed that it would see the drive and the files on the drive. After that, I paid $25 for a license and was able to copy all the data from the Buffalo hard disk to my PC.

My new NAS (from Seagate) should arrive tomorrow and then I'll copy the contents from my internal drive to the new NAS. Once I have confirmed that everything looks good, I'll delete the restored files from my desktop hard drive.

This is great news, I will attempt the same thing this week-end. Thank you for this update.

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Products => Storage => Topic started by: Jeff Peterman on September 21, 2015, 02:27:39 PM