On 27/09/16 13:44, mick wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:10:09 +0100 Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk allegedly wrote:
In 2009 I bought an Edimax NAS from Scan.co.uk and it's worked fine since, albeit with a change of hard drives.
<SNIP> Sorry, I don't know where to get a NAS. If you an find one that does, raid using MDADM, then perhaps all will be well, but TBH I don't know if you'll find one. Perhaps you can find another one like the one you had originally, in that case, you might be able to just shove the disks in - BUT if the NAS has failed somehow, then perhaps it's also time to change disks too? Perhaps just get a smallish PC, install linux on it with mdadm and get that to be a RAID disk server rather than a NAS unit. I would get new disks though use MDADM swap from the old ones to the new ones. Two ways of going about it, either increase the number of disks in the array, then add the new ones. MDADM will then copy the data to the new disks. Once that's finished, tell mdadm to "fail" the original two disks, remove them, then reduce the size of the array back down to two disks. Alternatively, "fail" one of the disks, replace it with a new one. Once the data has synced, then "fail" the other original disk, then replace it with the other new one. Then you're using the new disks entirely.
Whatever you do, good luck!
Steve