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[justdiver]

I've been using the machine for a couple of months now (sadly disappointed with how much supposed functionality is actually broken) when today I came home to find it powered off.  I started it up, logged into the web interface and it told me I needed to select the raid type.  Funny, I built my raid months ago.   If I was to select any of the raid types it would wipe the drives (that have a raid already built) and destroy all my data.  I really don't want that to happen.  I don't know why this happened, is there anyway to salvage my data since both drives are fine, and it was working fine yesterday. 

Please help. 

[mig]

... I don't know why this happened, is there anyway to salvage my data since both drives are fine, and it was working fine yesterday.

How do you know both drives are fine?

What RAID type did you setup before?

Is itt possible that one of the drives may have failed?

[justdiver]

I know that both drives are fine because they are both reading in a "normal" state.  I went so far as to pull the drives out and test each one with DFT and they both passed.  I called support and they basically told me I'm SOL because the device somehow "forgot" my raid configuration and the only way to recover is to rebuild my array which will destroy all data. 

[mig]

What kind of RAID did you setup?

Are you Linux savy?

[justdiver]

RAID 1.  Semi-Linux savy.  I run a linux firewall at home and can (for the most part) hold my own but for the more difficult stuff I have a linux guru that I can call on. 

[mig]

O.K., with RAID 1, you won't need to reconstruct the RAID to make a backup. 

Your quickest route to recovery is to mount one of the disks on a Linux machine and make
a backup of your data.  Then, place both drives into the DNS-321 and re-setup the RAID1.
Finally, restore your data.  And keep a current backup, in case this problem resurfaces.

Since you are Linux savy you can do a google search for 'fun_plug dns' and this will reveal
another forum which may help get the features you want out of your NAS.

[justdiver]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was planning to do.  I was downloading a live disc while I was reading this.  Trouble is, I've got 650gigs of stuff and no place to put it.  My NAS was the place to put it.  :-p  I still don't like the idea of needing to backup all that data.  I've seen the fun plug stuff.  Lots of neat stuff, but realistically I just wanted redundant storage.  I thought a hard drive would fail long before anything like this would happen to the unit.  It's not very encouraging. 

[gunrunnerjohn]

You should have a backup of any data on the NAS anyway, RAID is NOT backup!