regraham
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- Apr 17, 2014
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Hi All, Several years ago I installed FreeNAS on an old HPEX495 Media Centre - I followed, well, I actually wrote this guide....this guide....
I installed 9.2.1.5 and for anyone who knows the EX495, you may be aware that I installed this blind since I had no way of connecting up a monitor...ok
I used the system less and less over the years and about a year ago when I went to check it, I realised FreeNAS was not booting as I could not access the web interface anymore. I could still see it in my Router as a connected device but I could not see the web admin page.
I popped out the drives and plugged them into my Windows PC to see if I could tell anything, lo and behold, one of them was not recognised. it's dead.
I've no idea now if i set this up as ZFS or UFS as I think there were some limitations with ZFS due to the hardware at the time. But I'm sure I would have spanned the data to have 1 big 6TB drive (3x 2TB).
Now most of this stuff is crap media files for a media server, but a good chunk of it is personal photos and my wedding video.
1. Is there any way to recover this since one drive is dead?
2. How do these systems store data, is a whole file stored on one drive or is the data for a single file spread across all 3? (If the latter is there any kind of parity index to restore them from the remaining 2 drives?)
I installed 9.2.1.5 and for anyone who knows the EX495, you may be aware that I installed this blind since I had no way of connecting up a monitor...ok
I used the system less and less over the years and about a year ago when I went to check it, I realised FreeNAS was not booting as I could not access the web interface anymore. I could still see it in my Router as a connected device but I could not see the web admin page.
I popped out the drives and plugged them into my Windows PC to see if I could tell anything, lo and behold, one of them was not recognised. it's dead.
I've no idea now if i set this up as ZFS or UFS as I think there were some limitations with ZFS due to the hardware at the time. But I'm sure I would have spanned the data to have 1 big 6TB drive (3x 2TB).
Now most of this stuff is crap media files for a media server, but a good chunk of it is personal photos and my wedding video.
1. Is there any way to recover this since one drive is dead?
2. How do these systems store data, is a whole file stored on one drive or is the data for a single file spread across all 3? (If the latter is there any kind of parity index to restore them from the remaining 2 drives?)