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[rmiller1959]

We are in the midst of a move, and my network equipment, including the DNS-323, was at the old house when Hurricane Irene hit and our power went out. We also suffered flooding in the basement, although the DNS-323 was high enough in the rack that it didn't suffer water damage, although I'm not sure if there was an electrical problem or not. The unit was unplugged and moved upstairs, where it sat for several days unpowered.

Anyway, I'm at the new house in Virginia and trying to set up my network rack, and when I plug in the DNS-323 and press the power button, I get...nothing. No lights, no fan, no indication whatsoever that it's getting power. I removed the drives and tried to power it up...nothing.

I took the drives out and put them in a dual docking station, and they power up and are recognized by my computer, but I couldn't read the files. A kind person on one of these forums recommended a software solution called R-Studio, which I used. I recovered a significant number of files, probably the majority of them, but I don't know if I recovered them all. My recollection of what was stored on those drives isn't that precise.

As a result, I've thought about purchasing a new D-Link NAS for the drives, and the $99 price I found for a DNS-320 is attractive. Would the drives be read the same by the DNS-320 as they were by the DNS-323? In other words, if I swap my JBOD-configured drives from my old DNS-323 into a DNS-320, will it read them just as if they were in my old DNS-323?

[JavaLawyer]

You may want to consider also posting this question in the DNS-320 forum for more exposure.

[rmiller1959]

Thank you, kind sir - and thanks for your help previously!

[JavaLawyer]

I found a post on this subject posted by D-Link here.

Summarizing the post: it looks like RAID 1 is "NOT" transferable, but Standard Volumes and JBOD "ARE" transferable. Good news for you "if" this is true. Please see the post on the link above.  

[rmiller1959]

Thank you for once again coming to my rescue!

[JavaLawyer]

Just be mindful of the information in the referenced post and make sure you have a backup of your data before moving forward.

[rmiller1959]

Just to close the loop, I couldn't get the DNS-320 to read the drives from my old DNS-323 "as is", even though they were JBOD and not RAID. Since I'd already recovered a good number of files from the drives using R-Studio, I just went ahead and reformatted them so I'd have a functional NAS device again. It's a good lesson to learn, however, to have a backup of your backup (grin)!

Fortunately, we didn't store critical files on the device, and we used it mostly to share files between computers on the network, meaning most of them were downloaded from the NAS to someone else's computer. Since I don't know if the restored files and folders represent all of the ones that were actually on the drives, ignorance is bliss!

Thanks to JavaLawyer, who's been a great help throughout this process!