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[Zsom]

Hi,

I had a DLink DNS-323 NAS with 2 Samsung 1TB disks which I set up as a 300GB RAID-1 partition and the rest as one big JBOD partition.
Unfortunately not the drives are the ones what failed but the NAS. So now I have 2 functional HDDs but Windows does not recognize them. They show up in the device manager but not in the list of drives under my computer.
If I buy a new NAS can I plug in the disks as is and will it recognize them? Can I do anything to access the data on them from Windows?

Thanks for any help.

[JavaLawyer]

You have two choices:

• If you buy a new DNS-323, you should be able to simply mount the HDDs in a new DNS-323 with the same firmware version and the NAS should recognize them without issue. If you purchase a new DNS-323, I recommend labeling the HDDs with a magic marker so you know which slot they originally sat in the old DNS-323. Changing the slots can render the HDDs unreadable.  It's also possible that mounting the HDDs on a Windows PC can render the volumes unreadable if Windows attempted to write any data and modified key parts of the Volume that the DNS-323 needs to correctly identify and mount the HDDs.
• Here is your second option: DNS-323 - Data Recovery (Windows PCs)
  

Unfortunately, the HDDs will not be compatible with next generation D-Link NAS (e.g. DNS-320, DNS-320L, etc.), as D-Link changed the filesystem on newer models that prevents backwards compatibility.

[Zsom]

Thank you for the detailed reply.
Do I also need to think about the hardware revision (A or C) when buying a new one or will any of the 2 work with mine? (which was C btw).

[JavaLawyer]

Good question. I'll need to validate this with my contacts at D-Link but my gut tells me it won't matter as the filesystem driving both hardware revisions is the same. I'll ask the question however.